Quotes About Dogma

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet.

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

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

Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.

There is no such thing as 'God given scripture', 'the messenger of God' or 'the Last Prophet'.

Any fool can start a religion. And many do.

If any belief or societal dogma prevents peaceful societal change or progress, that society will inevitably be victims of miserable violent changes.

When citizens of a country or nation believe in superstitions or dogma, they will inevitably suffer from tremendous misery or tragedy.

Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely.

?Blind faith may be healthy for the individual mind, but it is not religion.

Any philosophy is a sacrilege against creation. It just gives people the kinds of explanations that they want to hear.

Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals.

Unfortunately, in the world today, we have dogmatic people entering into politics. I don't think the two mix.

If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.

So much wrong could religion induce.

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.

The death of dogma is the birth of reality.

No Bible, Quran or Veda can give you religion.

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.

Alles wat geen natuurwet is, is dogma.

Conservatives pride themselves on resisting change, which is as it should be. But intelligent deference to tradition and stability can evolve into intellectual sloth and moral fanaticism, as when conservatives simply decline to look up from dogma because the effort to raise their heads and reconsider is too great.