Dogma Quotes

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"Religion can be the enemy of God. It`s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building. A list of instructions where there was once conviction; dogma where once people just did it; a congregation led by a man where once they were led by the Holy Spirit. Discipline replacing discipleship."

- Bono

"I am one of Lars von Trier`s fans and like the Dogma movement"

- Joel Schumacher

I once wrote a horror screenplay for my friend Vincent to make when he was in high school that was close to Bergman`s The Seventh Seal". Very psychological horror stuff. Alot of the religious elements in the script ended up in Dogma.

- Kevin Smith

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

- Christy Turlington

(on getting the part of Bethany in Dogma (1999)) When I read the script, I just said, "There`s no way anyone else is allowed to have this part". I thought it was extremely clever and it had very imaginative answers to all my childhood questions about angels and devils and the apostles and all that stuff.

- Linda Fiorentino

It doesn`t really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we`re not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.

- Martin Sheen

(Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City, UT), January 23, 2004) Since there`s not more news than there used to be, but there`s way more time, and more channels doing it all the time, so that analysis has become much more than news . . . They really have to fill and they go, "(Expletive), we`ll just have analysis for the next three hours," because there`s no more new on the story. And then . . . the first person with a semi-cogent thought, they go, "(Expletive), I`ll say that, too." And then that analysis becomes accepted dogma because analysis is the bulk of what you`re getting. You`re not really getting any more news.

- Stephen Colbert

When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense.

- Don Nickles

When you look at what I`ve done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland`s people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.

- Peter Hain

Your time is limited, so don`t waste it living someone else`s life. Don`t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people`s thinking. Don`t let the noise of other`s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

- Steve Jobs

And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.

- Barry McGuire

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

- Felix Adler

Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.

- Paul Gray

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

- Stefan Zweig

The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from `We`re right and you`re wrong.`

- Neale Donald Walsch

I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that`s not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better.

- Neale Donald Walsch

Am I a criminal? The world knows I`m not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You`ve lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

- Jack Kevorkian

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn`t mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It`s a dogma which o-ne is supposed to accept without question.

- Stephen Harper

I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get.

- Howard Fineman

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

- Al Haynes

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

- Alex Anderson

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.

- Alex Culbertson

The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I`m in that mold.

- Alexander Henry

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

- Alison Levine

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

- Alison Levine

The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma.

- Allan Ramsay

I believe that dogma is often evil.

- Amos Winter

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

- Annette Whittington

the dogma that women using contraception must menstruate is changing, and (a reversible absence of bleeding) has become more acceptable to women.

- Ashley Ellington

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

- George Santayana