Dogma Quotes - Page 15

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

  Bill Bixby

  Superhero, Incredible Hulk, Banner

  "Fictional character: David Banner". "The Incredible Hulk" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 1978–1982.

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• Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Motivational, Independent, Suffering

  "Computing Science: Achievements and Challenges". Edsger Dijkstra's keynote address at the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing in San Antonio, Texas, www.cs.utexas.edu. March 1, 1999.

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• I can definitely make an argument for atheism. I was very educated in scripture and dogma and the church, particularly the Catholic Church. I could not possibly know that I disagreed with religion unless I knew what I was disagreeing with.

  Amber Heard

  Catholic, Atheism, Church

  "Amber Heard: 20(ish) Questions". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. August 20, 2011.

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• As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.

  Adrienne Rich

  Poet, Young

  Source: criticalflame.org

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• I'm allergic to dogma. I thrive on riddles. Any idea I believe, I reserve the right to disbelieve as well.

  Rob Brezsny

  Believe, Ideas, Riddle

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.3, Frog Books

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• If a state political organization is founded in part upon a state religion with a dogma based on one or a few 'official' prophets, then shamanism, where every shaman is her or his own prophet, is dangerous to the state. [...] Shamanism, as I said, is not a religion. The spiritual experience usually becomes a religion after politics has entered into it.

  Michael Harner

  Spiritual, Organization, Political

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• I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion.

  Justin Broadrick

  Religious, Form, Despise

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Please clean up after your dogma.

  Dan Barker

  Clean, Please

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• . . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . .

  Mao Zedong

  Cows, Likes, Revisionism

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• Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

  Jean Cocteau

  Guarantees, Martyr, Without Hope

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• Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.

  Bertrand Russell

  Acquiescence, Should, Produce

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• Capitalism rules worldwide, and a society whose economic fabric depends on constant growth requires that its citizens have ever-expanding needs and wants... In the West, it will take one with soul force equal to Gandhi's to change the prevailing dogma of ever increasing GNP. We may be forced to change our profligate ways some day, when the soil is depleted, the aquifers drained, the icecaps melted, and all the oil wells pumped dry. But the crisis will wait another fifty years or so; we'll leave those problems to a generation yet unborn.

  Philip Yancey

  Years, Oil, Aquifers

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• In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would be devised: both processes gained speed through the nineteenth century and have come close to the limit of extravagant futility in our own time. But labor-saving devices could only achieve their end-that of freeing mankind for higher functions-if the standard of living remained stable. The dogma of increasing wants nullified every real economy and set the community in a collective squirrel-cage.

  Lewis Mumford

  Real, Names, Squirrels

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• The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Wisest Man, Sky

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.490, Simon and Schuster

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• Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren't interested in), people don't speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Thinking, People, Prejudice

  "This I Believe" radio program, thisibelieve.org. 1951.

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• There is no dogma, there isn't anything about how the universe works.

  Jerry Garcia

  Universe

  Source: medium.com

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• There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Medical, Ethical, Scientist

  Jonah Goldberg (2012). “The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas”, p.63, Penguin

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• I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings and by the power of the Jesus fellow.

  Tom Shadyac

  Jesus, Teaching, Catholic

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• Those who would be employed in propagating the Gospel should be familiar with the doctrines he is to combat and the doctrines he is to teach, and acquire a complete knowledge both of the Sacred Scriptures and of these philosophical and mythological dogmas which form the souls of the Buddhist and Hindu Systems.

  William Carey

  Buddhist, Philosophical, Soul

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• Global warming alarmists invariably try to make their case by resorting to rhetoric, dogma, opinion, and emotion. The closest thing to scientific data in their articles is the occasional chart claiming a poorly understood correlation between atmospheric CO2 and the Earth's temperature.

  Walter Cunningham

  Data, Trying, Earth

  "Politics Outweigh Science In Global Warming Debate". www.heartland.org. June 5, 2010.

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• If this analysis of history is approximately sound and if the future like the past is to be crowded with changes and exigencies, then it is difficult to believe that the feminism of the passing generation, already hardened into dogma and tradition, represents the completed form of woman's relations to work, interests and society.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Believe, Past, Feminism

  Mary Ritter Beard, Ann J. Lane (1977). “Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard”, p.145, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• To ask for overt renunciation of a cherished doctrine is to expect too much of human nature. Men do not repudiate the doctrines and dogmas to which they have sworn their loyalty. Instead they rationalize, revise, and re-interpret them to meet new needs and new circumstances, all the while protesting that their heresy is the purest orthodoxy.

  J. William Fulbright

  Loyalty, Men, Doctrine

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• I'm totally changed. I've been emancipated from all this Republican dogma. Whether it's being anti-immigration, being-anti gay, being militaristic and wanting to engage in all these military interventions across the planet. That's all absurd.

  Thomas Ravenel

  Military, Gay, Immigration

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• I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Should Have, Principles, Violence

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4031, Delphi Classics

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• He said that faith is like a glass of water. When you're young, the glass is small, and it's easy to fill up. But the older you get, the bigger the glass gets, and the same amount of liquid doesn't fill it anymore. Periodically, the glass has to be refilled.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Glasses, Water, Liquid

  "Fictional character: Liz". "Dogma", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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