A Quote by Thales

Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.

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Thales
Greek - Philosopher
624 BC - 546 BC

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

Robert E. Lee

What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.

George Bernard Shaw

Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Every intelligence agency in the world believed that Saddam Hussein had had weapons of mass destruction, precursor chemicals. The inspectors, over a period of ten years, had managed to gain access to much of those precursor chemicals.

John Reid

Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.

J. B. MacKinnon

People tend not to want to question dogma. But I'm afraid of dogma.

Neal Adams

It's only a dogma that hells exists; it isn't a dogma that there's anybody in it.

Antonia White

Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.

John Adams

Beware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay.

Joseph Jekyll

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.

Jean-Marie Lehn

Ultimately freedom is necessary for a society, because every despotic society - for instance, the Russian society - lives on the basis of a rather implausible dogma - the Marxist dogma of world redemption through Communism.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

George Eliot

Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

Jon Ronson

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