Quotes with doctrine

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  • Henry Louis Mencken The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Roy Hattersley The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.
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  • Edward Gibbon The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • Arthur Middleton There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Henry Fielding There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Benjamin Tucker This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Brigham Young This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits who are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth
    Polygamy Journal of Discourses, 4:56(Sept. 21, 1856)
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Caleb Cushing This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Bernard Crick To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 2, A Defence Of Politics Against Ideology, p.
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Bradley A. Smith Ultimately, the court is heading to a doctrine of 'separation of campaign and state.' This doctrine, like separation of church and state or separation of military and civilian authority, is not explicit in the Constitution but flows naturally from its structure and commitment to freedom and democracy.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Daniel Defoe We lov'd the doctrine for the teacher's sake.
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Buddha Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Junius When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • Junius When once a man is determined to believe, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms him in his faith.
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • Tertullian You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
    Tertullian
    Roman Christian author from Carthage (160 - 230)
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  • Ambrose Bierce An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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