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A faith is
something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for.
There is all the difference in the world.
-- Tony Benn
1925-, British Labor
Politician
The American
doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and,
in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The
first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a
visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat
is a visionary on the other.
-- James F. Cooper
1789-1851, American Novelist
The greatest
horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the
ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons,
but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the
sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the
passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of
Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations
of the Cheka.
-- Aleister Crowley
1875-1947, British Occultist
It was then
that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I
wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got
that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I
understood that it was all machine-sewn.
-- Henrik Ibsen
1828-1906, Norwegian
Dramatist
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