#creeds

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds. ↗

— Jeb Bush

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Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

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I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them. ↗

— Francis Wright

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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. ↗

— Lord Acton

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Art raises its head where creeds relax. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions. ↗

— Ronald J. Sider

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