Atheism Quote by William Graham Sumner

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject...

— William Graham Sumner

Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself

— Timothy Keller

“It’s good for you to think of this, son. Ponder. Worry. Stay up nights, frightened for the casualties of your ideology. It will do…

— Brandon Sanderson

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will…

— Alan Watts

When we have communion with God in the doctrine we contend for-then shall we be garrisoned by the grace of God against all the…

— John Owen

It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him;…

— Sun Tzu

Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens…

— John Dewey

War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of…

— William Ellery Channing

Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?

— William Shakespeare

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

— Charles Caleb Colton

War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty…

— C. E. M. Joad