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The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.
Author:
Francis Yockey
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Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.
Author:
Charles Williams
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The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.
Author:
Ellen White
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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
Author:
H. Wells
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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
Author:
Simone Weil
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place.
Author:
Earl Warren
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I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.
Author:
Vernon Walters
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Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.
Author:
Benjamin Wade
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First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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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.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Tertullian
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If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.
Author:
Randall Terry
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An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
Author:
Antonio Tabucchi
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I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
Author:
Harlan Stone
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I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.
Author:
J. Stedman
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Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.
Author:
Leland Stanford
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As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.
Author:
Arlen Specter
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Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed.
Author:
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.
Author:
Goldwin Smith
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I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.
Author:
Gerrit Smith
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My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
Author:
Anna Sewell
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To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.
Author:
Michael Servetus
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In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.
Author:
Elihu Root
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There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
Author:
Pat Robertson
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Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.
Author:
Walter Rauschenbusch
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Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments.
Author:
Robert Rainy
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Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.
Author:
Joseph Priestley
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A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.
Author:
Orson Pratt
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.
Author:
John Polkinghorne
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Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
Author:
John Polkinghorne
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Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.
Author:
John Polkinghorne
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The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
Author:
Steven Pinker
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The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.
Author:
Nancy Pelosi
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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.
Author:
Richard Nixon
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The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
Author:
Benito Mussolini
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Among the southern tribes, on the contrary, hats were sometimes worn in the dance, although this was not considered in strict accordance with the doctrine.
Author:
James Mooney
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A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.
Author:
Dwight Moody
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Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
Author:
Henry Miller
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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.
Author:
Arthur Middleton
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Author:
H. Mencken
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My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
Author:
Lord Melbourne
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The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.
Author:
Walter Martin
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What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
Author:
Walter Martin
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Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.
Author:
Lajos Kossuth
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A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.
Author:
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.
Author:
Aly Khan
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
Author:
Walter Kaufmann
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One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.
Author:
Junius
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When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.
Author:
Junius
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The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.
Author:
E. Hunt
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We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary.
Author:
E. Hunt
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Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.
Author:
Julia Howe
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And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.
Author:
Auberon Herbert
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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.
Author:
Roy Hattersley
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Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
Author:
William Gurnall
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The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
Author:
Angelina Grimke
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Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.
Author:
Thomas Goodwin
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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
Author:
Charlotte Gilman
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Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
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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.
Author:
A. Giamatti
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I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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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.
Author:
John Galbraith
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I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
Author:
Sigmund Freud
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What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.
Author:
Louis Farrakhan
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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.
Author:
Dwight Eisenhower
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The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods.
Author:
Wilhelm Dilthey
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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.
Author:
Robertson Davies
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But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.
Author:
John Darby
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To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.
Author:
Josephus Daniels
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This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
Author:
Caleb Cushing
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The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.
Author:
Martin Chemnitz
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The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.
Author:
H. Blavatsky
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Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
Author:
Tony Benn
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To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
Author:
Thomas Babington
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.
Author:
Henry Adams
