#doctrines

Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#care #catholic #church #doctrines #had

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#contradiction #doctrines #paradox #practice #rules

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

#attack #because #creeds #crime #dangerous

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies. ↗

— Malcolm Wallop

#both #carry #democrat #doctrines #out

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#advocacy #amongst #any #doctrines #feel

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#contests #deal #dislike #doctrines #events

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#consequences #devotion #distasteful #doctrines #economic

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#doctrines #either #else #everybody #like

Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves. ↗

— William Gurnall

#among #compare #doctrines #false #like

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed. ↗

— O. Henry

#am #choice #discovering #doctrines #feed