Doctrinaires Quotes

#1. We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.

Theodore Roosevelt

#2. More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.

Albert Camus

#3. ... he noticed that the free thinkers, the doctrinaires of the bourgeoisie, people who claimed every liberty that they might stifle the opinions of others, were greedy and shameless puritans whom, in education, he esteemed inferior to the corner shoemaker.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#4. After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.

Anne Lamott

#5. I think the most difficult things that we sacrifice are the things that we have to sacrifice daily.

Tim Foreman

#6. Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. I asked a holy wise man, "Who is fortunate and who is unfortunate?" He replied: "He was fortunate who ate and sowed, and he was unfortunate who died without having enjoyed.

Saadi

#7. [U]se extreme caution, and please remember that 451 degrees Fahrenheit is more than just a book a title....

Ammon Shea

#8. Have you noticed that those who murder in the thousands invariably claim divine favor while those who kill on a far more modest scale, myself included, know in our hearts that God weeps for our sins?

Sara Poole

#9. No one could be still like Edward.

Stephenie Meyer

#10. All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.

Benjamin Disraeli

#12. My blackness is spreading, Alice. I've been seeing and hearing things that can't be there or anywhere. At night, when I'm not hallucinating mad women, I can feel depression starting to burn me around the edges. If I sink into it, I'll have to give this thing up and write a novel.

Hanif Kureishi

#13. Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.

Bill Gaede

#14. The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

Stendhal