Top 444 Dogma Quotes & Sayings

Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.

The most effective way to close down the human mind and to manipulate its sense of self is to program into it some form of dogma. A dogma will always vehemently defend itself from other information and repel any alternative opinion which contradicts its narrow, solidified view. Dogmas become a person's sense of security and means of retaining power, and humanity tends to cling to both until its knuckles turn white. Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy.

What chiefly concerns and alarms many of us are the problems arising from religious fanaticism. As long as large numbers of militant enthusiasts are persuaded that they alone have access to the truth, and that the rest of us are infidels, we remain under threat. Lord Acton's famous phrase about power can be used of another danger. Dogma tends to corrupt, and absolute dogma corrupts absolutely.

One must overcome history by dogma.

You can't pay a landlord in dogma.

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

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible.

For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet sufficiently enlightened to realize that we must now challenge that dogma, or do without our wilderness? Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?

Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.

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

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.

Every dogma has its day.

Enjoy mystery and speculation, but don't drift into dogma.

Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.

Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute.

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it.

The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.

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.

The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake.

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

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

Perfect definition of atheist dogma. Your mind has been subjected to subtle mental conditioning year after year. Now the atheist lie has become the truth to you. A lie that can be blown away with the real truth. It just takes time to unwind the atheist mental conditioning. The truth is out there. Outside of atheist dogma lies the truth!

Those who say they dislike dogma, or 'certainty', tend to be liars, hypocrites, or simply wrong. What they really dislike is the dogma of those they disagree with. A society that was certain, certain beyond all certainty, that putting its citizens in death camps was wrong, would never put people in death camps. Such things are only possible when you're open to new ideas.

Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.

The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.

I believe that dogma is often evil.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma.

Every dogma must have its day.

Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition.

Man's best friend is his dogma.

My karma just ran over my dogma.

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service.

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.

Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.

Rational thought will always trump medieval dogma.

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.

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

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.

Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

As soon as we cease to pry about at random, we shall come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma; and as soon as we come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma, not only are the days of our liberty over, but we have lost the password that has hitherto opened to us the gates of success as well.

Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.

There is only one search: wandering... no dogma and no heresy.

Under attack, sentiments harden into dogma.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

If I could, I'd love to make 'Dragon's Dogma 2' - it'd be awesome.

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.

It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.

In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

Please clean up after your dogma.