#dogma

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#even #foundation #function #greater #indeed

I believe that dogma is often evil. ↗

— Pat Buckley

#dogma #evil #i #i believe #i believe that

Every dogma has its day. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#dogma #every

Unfortunately things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#become #climate #different #dogmas #heavily

In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#dogmatism #found #natural #remedy #research

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#extremism #fanaticism #god #inhumanity #justification

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting. ↗

— Fernand Leger

#axiom #dogma #general #must #painting

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#act #anew #case #difficulty #dogmas

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#communicated #complex #considerable #distant #distortion

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#ask #dawn #dogma #essential #going