Dogma Quotes - Page 14

• Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.

  Felix Adler

  Men, Oppression, Conviction

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• ...you will do more harm than good by attempting to supplant old dogmas and customs with new dogmas. It will be the same in the end except that the old is less militant, less dangerous than a new order imposed by enthusiasts.

  Gore Vidal

  Order, Ends, Harm

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• You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside from limiting conceptions and dogmas.

  Seth

  Self, Ideas, Perception

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• The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a rabble of insane monastics to be dragged to a violent death.... Man has made himself a law unto himself, publishing it in his pretended "heavenly" revelations, dogmas, and statutes. Woman is not constructing a law unto herself, and she is putting it forth, not on a pretendedly supernatural, but on a natural basis.

  Ellen Battelle Dietrick

  Philosophy, Men, Law

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• I have a very difficult time believing that there is some being who is going to invite me into heaven or not on the basis of whether I wear a yarmulke or whether I have been sprinkled with water while someone said something. Some of the ritual is very beautiful, but I find it difficult to believe that it really has to do with God. I believe that dogma comes from man.

  Andrew Solomon

  Beautiful, Believe, Men

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• Ultimately freedom is necessary for a society, because every despotic society - for instance, the Russian society - lives on the basis of a rather implausible dogma - the Marxist dogma of world redemption through Communism.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Redemption, World, Communism

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• The world is still being battered by the Western/white/Christian supremacy dogmas and practices, by the most primitive and fundamentalist 'principles'.

  Andre Vltchek

  Christian, White, Practice

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If we want growth today to be more innovation-driven, more inclusive and more sustainable, then we need a more active state, not a less active one. Yet we still hear the dogma that we should just fix market failure by focusing on science and infrastructure, and to "level the playing field."

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Innovation, Growth, Needs

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Too many are too obsessed by method. it becomes a dogma.

  Zaha Hadid

  Obsessed, Method

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally, you must go forth into the wilderness.

  Samuel Warren Carey

  Wall, Thinking, Wilderness

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• Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mistake, People, Speak

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.547, Psychology Press

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• The man who has successfully solved the problem of his relations with the two worlds of data and symbols is a man who has no beliefs. With regard to the problems of practical life he entertains a series of working hypotheses, which serve his purposes, but are taken no more seriously than any other kind of tool or instrument. In other words, symbols should never be raised to the rank of dogmas, nor should any system be regarded as more than a provisional convenience.

  Aldous Huxley

  Taken, Men, Data

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• Actually, I don't think most people join white supremacist groups because of the ideology or dogma. They gravitate to these groups because they've hit potholes in their lives and there are things they can't figure out how to navigate on their own. This might be bullying, parental abuse or neglect, mental or physical illness, or, for adults, unemployment.

  Christian Picciolini

  Bullying, Thinking, People

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• Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Religion, Emotion

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• I think that a lot of social movements, political movements, powerful ones - certainly they form, collectively, an idea of the truth which becomes hard to question. It becomes a dogma, and from the inside it starts to look like common sense.

  Julian Baggini

  Powerful, Thinking, Common Sense

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• In France, we have laïcité, which means that atheism is almost our state religion. But I think a very important part of Western culture is in the centuries when Christianism was dominant and was present in almost all works of art - not only liturgical works, but also literature and music. Yes, it's important to have that in our present. It doesn't mean that people have to adhere to a dogma or practice a religion, but it's part of our heritage, and you have to at least try to understand it. Otherwise you can't be a modern person.

  Eugene Green

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I still believe in the American Dream. I see it in terms of freedom, and a government that trusts its people to exercise freedom, that this is not a government that allows you to give, that allows you to explore, and doesn't dampen your own creativity - in the broadest sense - with a lot of dictums or dogmas or restraints. So, insofar as we can remain a free country that allows for the interplay of personal energies. I think this is still a country that is not only working towards a dream, but actually is the dream in action.

  John Updike

  Country, Dream, Believe

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong.

  Xavier Dolan

  Philosophy, Style, Crafts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are three musts that hold us back: "I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy." And I sometimes think that as long as we keep the second must, which is socially learned, then some screwballs 100 years from now will manufacture atomic bombs in their bathtub and maybe annihilate the whole human race because they demand that the rest of the world must agree with their dogmas. When we don't agree, they may zap us.

  Albert Ellis

  Thinking, Years, Race

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• Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Morality, Misery, Life Is

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.

  Howard Fast

  Religion, Doctrine, Scripture

  Howard Fast (2011). “The Art of Zen Meditation”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• The difficulty, then, is when you create a church, an institution, and you create a dogma. When you create an ideology, that's the danger. Communism, too, is a beautiful idea, but millions of people died when communism became an ideology.

  Michael Haneke

  Beautiful, Ideas, People

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 30, 2009.

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• Then another thing, now this is mainly for our interest about Tibet, our struggle. Whole struggle depend on within person. For dangerous. Foolish! Not for this only institution or even not only for Buddhist dogma, but before national sort of right, our right. So therefore this struggle must carried by people themselves.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Struggle, People

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.

  Margaret Atwood

  Religious, Political, Kind

  "Margaret Atwood Ruins a Marriage, Talks Memes, Politics in Reddit AMA". Interview with Jia Tolentino, jezebel.com. December 30, 2014.

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• I have not the most definite designs on the future.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Future, Design, Definite

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.96, Penguin

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