Creeds Quotes - Page 21

• The Europeans are all deeply tainted with prejudices, both ecclesiastical and temporal, which they can never get rid of. They are all infected with episcopal and presbyterian creeds, and confessions of faith. They all believe that great Principle which has produced this boundless universe, Newton's universe and Herschell's universe, came down to this little ball, to be spit upon by Jews. And until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.

  John Adams

  Believe, Principles, Prejudice

  John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.525, Penguin

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• Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Nonviolence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.52, New Directions Publishing

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• Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mistake, People, Violence

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.183, Tara Publishing

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• Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Doe, Common

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.120, Orient Paperbacks

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• Live by the creed that a strong work ethic, playing by the rules, and doing things the right way will bring about opportunities for success and, ultimately, happiness.

  Nick Saban

  Strong, Opportunity, Work Ethic

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• Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.

  Annie Besant

  Fashion, Thinking, Atheism

  M V Srinivasa Aiyangar, Annie Besant (1915). “An Open Letter to Mrs. Annie Besant: Being a Reply to Her Attacks on Hinduism”

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• Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

  William Pitt

  Exercise, Tyrants, Slavery

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• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  Felix Adler

  Religious, Dogma, Certain

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• Women in stores will pull their children away from me sometimes so they won't catch the crazy Creed virus. Other folks are disappointed that I'm not that guy in person.

  Creed Bratton

  Children, Crazy, Guy

  Source: rocksucker.co.uk

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• Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Race, Independence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.165, Oxford University Press

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• Let us reject the spirit of making proselytes to particular creeds by any other means than persuasion.

  Noah Webster

  Mean, Spirit, Persuasion

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• There's this big debate that goes on in America about what rights are: Civil rights, human rights, what they are? it's an artificial debate. Because everybody has rights. Everybody has rights - I don't care who you are, what you do, where you come from, how you were born, what your race or creed or color is. You have rights. Everybody's got rights.

  Julian Bond

  America, Rights, Race

  Interview with Heidi Williamson, www.americanprogress.org. February 22, 2013.

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• To try and imagine that I'm another person is always going to be hard - whether I'm writing about a truck driver or someone who is gay, who's trans, who is of a different ethnicity or creed. But it would be boring if I always had to write about myself and my limited viewpoint.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Writing, Gay, Ethnicity

  "In a Galaxy Far, Far Away From Comic Book Bigotry, Black and Queer Heroes Rule". Interview with Miles E. Johnson, www.motherjones.com. December 17, 2015.

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• Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color.

  Ana Monnar

  Heart, Character, Ethnicity

  Ana Monnar, “Quotation”

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• For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth of the Christian horror. Then I said: "It is a lie, and I hate your religion. If it is true, I hate your God." From that day I have had no fear, no doubt. For me, on that day, the flames of hell were quenched. From that day I have passionately hated every orthodox creed. That Sermon did some good.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Christian, Religious, Pain

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• No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.

  James K. Polk

  Freedom, Perfect, Church

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• Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

  Walter Benjamin

  Book, Writing, People

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• I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Believe, Light, Add

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written”

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• Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Passion, Policy

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.115, Penguin Books India

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• Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Nonviolence, Unchangeable

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.119, Rajpal & Sons

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• I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Religion, Speak

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.159, Cambridge University Press

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• Compatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

  Sam Harris

  Long, Puppets, Strings

  Sam Harris (2012). “Free Will”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• It is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds more loosely, and will none the less, nay, rather all the more be devoted to the supreme end of practical righteousness to which all theories and creeds must be kept subservient.

  Felix Adler

  Men, Enlightened, Theory

  Felix Adler (1904). “New statement of the aim of the ethical culture societies”

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• The true church is not made of creeds and forms, nor is it contained in walls of wood and stone; the heart of man is its temple and the Spirit of truth is the one guide into all Truth. When men learn to turn within to the Spirit of truth, who is in each one for his light and inspiration, the differences between the churches of man will be eliminated, and the one church will be recognized.

  Charles Fillmore

  Wall, Inspiration, Heart

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• The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or limited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same [whether] in a majority of a popular assembly; an aristocratic council; or oligarchical junto and a single emperor - equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody and in every respect diabolical.

  John Adams

  Political, Arbitrary, Fundamentals

  John Adams' Letter to Thomas Jefferson, founders.archives.gov. November 13, 1815.

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