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• We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion. This, then, is my true religion, my simple faith. In this sense, there is no need for temple or church, for mosque or synagogue, no need for complicated philosophy, doctrine, or dogma. Our own heart, our own mind, is the temple. The doctrine is compassion. Love for others and respect for their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are: ultimately these are all we need.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Philosophy, Heart

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• Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counter-productive but trivial.

  Tom Robbins

  Religious, Truth, Ambition

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.210, Bantam

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• Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

  Deepak Chopra

  Leadership, Spiritual, Religious

  "Deepak Chopra On Enlightened Leadership". Interview with Forbes, www.forbes.com. January 12, 2011.

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• AZRAEL: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air.

  Kevin Smith

  Air, Azrael, Sin

  Kevin Smith (1999). “Dogma: A Screenplay”, p.18, Grove Press

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• 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, People, Church

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, Believe, Evolution

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• My rap comes from a sociological standpoint rather than picking a particular side or dogma or ideology. I just want people to be free to do what they want, as long as they don't harm others.

  Killer Mike

  Rap, Long, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'

  Alan Rickman

  Teenager, People, Quests

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• The concept of 'purgatory' is in Catholic Church dogma, and most black people are not Catholic - mostly their Christian realities focus on heaven or hell. Purgatory is for the expiation of sin, the fact that you are there, and not in hell, means you'll eventually work your way to heaven. The experience of this play, 'Small oak tree', and its psychological architecture, relies on its knowledge of that. Many black people believe that this life, within itself, is a way to work out whatever obligations we have, in order to get to a better place.

  Harry Lennix

  Christian, Believe, Mean

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Spiritually, we're all on a path. I haven't declared of defined myself because as soon as you declare yourself you're identifying with a certain dogma.

  Emilio Estevez

  Path, Certain, Havens

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• Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Real, Guarantees That

  "The Politics of Ignorance" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2005.

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• To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Vintage, Doubt

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.264, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Zero, Maintenance

  "Science Must Destroy Religion" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2006.

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• Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

  John Berger

  Form, Pursuit, Blindness

  "The bloody outcome of two worlds at war" by John Berger, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2005.

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• This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Believe, Ignorance, Reality

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Clever, Fear, Men

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, 1961: There Is No Thinker, Only Thought”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• One must overcome history by dogma.

  Henry Edward Manning

  History, Overcoming

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• All definite knowledge - so I should contend - belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. But between theology and science there is a No Man's Land, exposed to attack by both sides; this No Man's Land is philosophy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become.

  Mary Roach

  Ignorance, Cutting, Views

  Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind. To do so effectively, the world needs a global ethic with values which give meaning to life experiences and, more than religious institutions and dogmas, sustain the non-material dimension of humanity. Mankind's universal values of love, compassion, solidarity, caring and tolerance should form the basis for this global ethic which should permeate culture, politics, trade, religion and philosophy. It should also permeate the extended family of the United Nations.

  Wangari Maathai

  Inspirational, Religious, Peace

  "Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World". Book by Wangari Maathai, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.

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• The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The plot pivots upon a single character, and the whole action is the answer to a single central problem: 'What think ye of Christ?'... He was emphatically not a dull m an in his human lifetime, and if he was God, there can be nothing dull about God either.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Christian, Drama, Character

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• We crave, we deeply yearn for, release from the limitations of a dogma that declares separation, disunity, and judgment to be the essential condition of life.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Essentials, Separation, Judgment

  "A Revolution Is What’s Called For Here" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and symbol better than doctrine and dogma. Images touch hearts and awaken imaginations. One theologian suggested that Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love' album, in which he symbolically sings of sin, death, despair and redemption, is more important for Catholics than the Pope's last visit when he spoke of morality only in doctrinal propositions.

  Brennan Manning

  Love, Book, Heart

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• America was founded by puritans and like it or not the anti-pleasure dogma of those buckled-shoed killjoys still pervades our collective unconscious like an I-max shot of Dennis Franz's naked hairy cop ass. Hence, anything enjoyable is automatically forbidden and bad and in our panic to avoid it at all cost we become obsessed with it... like dressing up in a pink teddy and a pair of ugboots and repeatedly screaming the word 'VERBOTEN!' into a conk shell balanced on the back on a miniature pony... Oh, I see.. That would just be me.

  Dennis Miller

  America, Collective Unconscious, Dressing Up

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