
Top 29 Dogmatic Religion Quotes
#1. The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.
John Stuart Mill
#2. If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstances. All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again. I cite the great civilizations of China and India.
Theodore Dreiser
#3. Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature.
Luther Burbank
#4. All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again.
Theodore Dreiser
#5. I cannot trust my other side, my drunken side, to act in my best interests anymore.
Robert Black
#6. All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
Hypatia
#7. When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze.
Kurt Lewin
#8. I sometimes find the vegetarians are more conditioned and more dogmatic than anything else, more than the religion. It's terrible, you must chew the food I don't know how many times, this you mustn't eat and this you must do, goodness me!
Irina Tweedie
#9. The very fact of having fixed conclusions to strive for in orthodox belief does not render the Christian philosopher dogmatic but rather intellectually fruitful, willing to take and follow reason further than the putatively undogmatic unbelieving philosopher
Gregory B. Sadler
#10. If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.
Ruth Bernhard
#11. Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.
Rupert Sheldrake
#12. Just not a big fan of dogmatic rituals or gatherings. Like I put faith in god, I give a truckload of significance to karma, character and compassion.
Varsha Dixit
#13. You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.
Bertrand Russell
#14. It is very hard not to see extensive and basic similarities between these (Pagan) religions and the Christian Religion. But somehow Christian scholars have managed not to see it, and this, one must suspect, for dogmatic reasons.
Robert M. Price
#15. I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion.
Justin Broadrick
#16. Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are 'shaggy dog' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.
W. H. Auden
#17. Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.
Carlos Fuentes
#18. For religion to truly become an aid to humanity as a whole, every human being must make sincere efforts to break down the dogmatic barriers among different religions constructed by the pathologically ill and dangerous fundamentalists.
Abhijit Naskar
#19. I was brought up in the presence of the Bible, and I remember with affection what it was like to hold a dogmatic position on the statements of Christian belief. I would now describe myself as a candid friend of Christianity
Diarmaid MacCulloch
#20. Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.
Augustus William Hare
#21. I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.
Bess Truman
#22. Elgin's game was an incredible performance, also. I don't think there's any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His game was attacking the hoop and hitting jumpers inside 20 feet. Kobe's range is unreal, and he does it his way.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#23. Luther and Calvin were as dogmatic and intolerant as the Church had been. For those who had to decide whether to become Protestant or to remain Catholic, it was a terrible time. For once the original religion fragments, which religion then leads to salvation?
John Rawls
#24. Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith.
Alan Aldridge
#25. I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.
Orlando Bloom
#26. Experience God, don't raise a wall of dogmas between you and Him.
Stefan Emunds
#27. It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously.
Haruki Murakami
#28. all the things we think are important really aren't, and he had no time to think about the things that really are. His whole life was going by and he had never contemplated the big, simple truths: loneliness and longing, desire and death.
Amos Oz
#29. Every religion in the world has had a subset of devotees who seek a direct, transcendent experience with God, excusing themselves from fundamentalist scriptural or dogmatic study in order to personally encounter the divine.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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