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"If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine." »Henry Thomas Buckle
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"Wherever there is a religious regime, over there there is ignorance, misery and absurdity! No religious state can ever elevate its own people! Sooner or later, the primitiveness of the religious administrations and the irrationality of the religious rules will cause a great collapse of those countries! The downfall is inevitable!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time." »Benito Mussolini, The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, 1935
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"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." »Albert Einstein, Letter, 24 March 1954. Quoted in "Albert Einstein: The Human Side," edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman
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"The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself." »Alfred Jules Ayer
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"Pride not thyself on thy religious works, Give to the poor, but talk not of thy gifts: By pride religious merit melts away, The merit of thy alms, by ostentation." »Manu
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"doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted." »John Owen
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"The doctrine that enters only into the ear is like the repast one takes in a dream." »Chinese
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"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." »Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man." »Robert G. Ingersoll
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"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." »H.L. Mencken
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"Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect." »William Thayer Shedd
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"Think on this doctrine,--that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity." »Robertson Davies
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"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity." »Robertson Davies
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"This is the doctrine of justification. It is the wonderful fact that God imputes His righteousness to us and makes us immune to the condemnation of sin. Being justified, no sin can ever be imputed against us." »Art Sims
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"From a psychological point of view, when people go under pressure in life, be it economically or otherwise, they seek support from the people closest to them, usually religious or ethnic groups. They also start blaming other groups who have more control over the national resources. If the gap of power is wide, this will eventually create deep divisions in the nation. The divisions can take on new forms of conflict such as class warfare, ethnic, religious, political unrest and sometime civil war. The only effective protection against national divisions is an open socioeconomic system with a large and growing middle class" »Med Jones
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"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
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"I hope I never get so old I get religious." »Ingmar Bergman
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"The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)" »Ronald Reagan
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"Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Theists and atheists are equally religious." »Kedar Joshi
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"I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction." »Blaise Pascal
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"religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others." »William Orville Douglas
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"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But 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
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"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult." »Rita Rudner
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