Dogma Quotes

Dogma Quote of the day

If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.

Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity.

The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.

Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.

The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.

Cease to be ruled by dogmas and authorities; look at the world!

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

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Man's best friend is his dogma.

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.

Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.

It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and a person at home with nature and the infinite.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

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

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.

Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas.

The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

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

Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.

The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a Pope if there is no Devil ?

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.

Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question...

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

It doesnt matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith.

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

The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.

Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.

One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.

God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.

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

Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.

Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.

Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.

A dogma recognized throughout antiquity... (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and... afterwards... passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'

The Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma.

The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.

Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it.