“The sources of our knowledge of the kabalistic doctrines are the books of Yetzirah and Zohar, the former drawn up in the second century, and the latter a little later; but they contain materials much older than themselves...In them, as in the teachings of Zoroaster, everything that exists emanates from a source of infinite Light.” LittlesBookLightTeachingCenturyMaterialsSourceInfiniteJewDoctrineFormerLatterEmanate Author:Albert Pike
“I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.” ThinkingHumansLittlesMatterWholeFoundHuman BeingsAtheismMoralityEthicsExperienceDoctrineEthicalTrashPsychoanalysisAgnosticism Author:Sigmund Freud
“We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.” LittlesPoorMoneyEconomyRichDoctrineAbandonEightyTwentieth CenturyLittle Money Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference.” MayLittlesPoliticalDifferencesReligiousTaughtDependsMethodDoctrineBeing TruePropagandaEmployedEffectivenessPerniciousTrue Or False Book:Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948 Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948
“The champions of militant Islam are, of course, misogynists, woman-haters; they are also misologists - haters of reason. Their armed doctrine is little more than a chaotic penal code underscored by impotent dreams of genocide. And, like all religions, it is a massive agglutination of stock response, of cliches, of inherited and unexamined formulations.” LittlesReasonDreamCoursesResponseIslamDoctrineCodeChampionMassiveGenocideClicheChaoticMilitant Author:Martin Amis