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“American liberty is being destroyed by Marxist doctrines that explain society in terms of hegemonic and oppressed groups - whether classes, races or genders - fighting for suzerainty. In these societies spun out of Marxist theorizing, good will does not exist, only the material interests of warring groups. Morality resides in the oppressed, but if the oppressed succeed in becoming hegemonic, their claim to moral supremacy evaporates.”

“I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself, and I grant to every other human being, not the right because it is his right but instead of granting I declare that it is his right, to attack every doctrine that I maintain, to answer every argument that I may urge in other words, he must have absolute freedom of speech.”

Giving Humans May Human Beings Answers Liberty Speech Argument Claims Absolutes Believer Doctrine Urges Grants Freedom Of Speech Absolute Freedom

Book:Miscellany

Source: Miscellany

“Yet if anyone cares to read over the now crumbling minutes giving an account of the meetings at which the Italian Fasci di Combattimento were founded, he will find not a doctrine but a series of pointers... It may be objected that this program implies a return to the guilds (corporazioni). No matter!... I therefore hope this assembly will accept the economic claims advanced by national syndicalism.”

Ifs Giving May Matter Care Accepting Economic Minutes Return Program Economics Accounts Claims Meetings Series Doctrine Italian Fascism Assembly Crumbling Guilds Pointers

Author:Benito Mussolini

“To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value, is quite illogical and arbitrary, unless one have already worked out in advance some psycho-physical theory connecting spiritual values in general with determinate sorts of physiological change. Otherwise none of our thoughts and feelings, not even our scientific doctrines, not even our dis -beliefs, could retain any value as revelations of the truth, for every one of them without exception flows from the state of their possessor's body at the time.”

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“The true value of the Christian religion rests, not upon speculative views of the Creator, which must necessarily be different in each individual, according to the extent of the knowledge of the finite being, who employs his own feeble powers in contemplating the infinite: but it rests upon those doctrines of kindness and benevolence which that religion claims and enforces, not merely in favour of man himself but of every creature susceptible of pain or of happiness.”

Men Different Christian Pain Values Individual Views Kindness Creatures Claims Infinite Creator Doctrine Contemplating Favour Finite Benevolence Susceptible True Value

Author:Charles Babbage

“To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.”

Social Theory Circumstances Claims Doctrine Ideology Derivatives

Book:In Defence of Politics

Source: In Defence of Politics

“Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government. Apart from constitutional law and religious doctrine, there is a sense that tells us it's wrong to presume to speak for God or to claim God's sanction of our particular legislation and his rejection of all other positions. Most of us are offended when we see religion being trivialized by its appearance in political throw-away pamphlets.”

“Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay; and claims a halo for his dishonesty.”

Men Social Pay Accepting Groups Willing Benefits Claims Doctrine Dishonesty Pacifism Halos Social Groups

Book:Double Star

Source: Double Star

“To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably we have here but a highly sophisticated expression of the doctrine that ideals are hallucination and that the only normal, sane person is the healthy extrovert, making instant, instinctive adjustments to the stimuli of the material world.”

Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

“The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.”

Men Doe Facts Problem Suffering Sin Claims Originals Doctrine Adam Original Sin

Author:Walter Kaufmann

“It is this claim to a monopoly of meaning, rather than any special scientific doctrine, that makes science and religion look like competitors today. Scientism emerged not as the conclusion of scientific argument but as a chosen element in a worldview - a vision that attracted people by its contrast with what went before - which is, of course, how people very often do make such decisions, even ones that they afterwards call scientific.”

People Looks Today Courses Decision Vision Special Elements Argument Claims Chosen Doctrine Conclusion Contrast Science And Religion Competitors Monopoly Worldview Scientism

Author:Mary Midgley

“For me, the existentialists are important critics of 'absolutist' claims, and Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty are, at least in their later writings, also exponents of a doctrine of mystery: Being or the 'well-spring' of everything is, for Heidegger, ineffable, just as what Merleau-Ponty called 'Flesh' is for him.”

Writing Wells Important Mystery Spring Claims Critics Flesh Doctrine Ineffable Existentialist Heidegger Exponents

Author:David E. Cooper

“If you look at US internal documents, they explain very clearly what the threat of Cuba was. So, back in the early 1960s the State Department described the threat of Cuba as Castro's successful defiance of US policy, going back to the Monroe Doctrine. The Monroe Doctrine established the US claim to dominate the Western hemisphere and Castro was successfully defying that. That's not tolerable. It is like somebody saying "let's have democracy in Greece," and we just can't tolerate that so we have to destroy the threat at its roots.”

“I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.”

Natural Wealth Cases Claims Doctrine Exception Grandeur Prompts Natural Love

Author:William Wilberforce

“Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence.”

Ifs Men Believe States Whole Facts Happens Suffering Fall Existence Missing Objects Optimism Claims Aim Injustice Starting Doctrine Enjoyment Desirable Pernicious

Book:The World as Will and Representation

Source: The World as Will and Representation