For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.

If you come to a Logic show, you get all creeds, colors, religions, and sexual orientations.

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for.

Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.

There are people of all colors and creeds across our state who've lost faith in our political system.

The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.

I just want all people to be treated equally, all creeds. It would just make everybody's time on earth easier.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.

There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.

'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

Compatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.

I want a laitywho know their creed so well, that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.

Debs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.

If all creeds are equally true, then since they are contradictory to one another, they are all equally false, or at least equally uncertain.

Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

Sekts and creeds ov religion, are like pocket compesses, good enuff tu pinte out the direction, but the nearer the pole yu git thewuss tha wurk.

The soul that feeds on books alone - I count that soul exceeding small That lives alone by book and creed, - A soul that has not learned to read.

I try to attack all races and creeds, except the Irish. Clearly they are closest to the angels and don't deserve abuse. But the others have it coming.

Nihilism is but the other side of conventionalism; its creed consists of negations of the current so-called positive values, to which it remains bound.

The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.

I like diversity. I'd like there to be all levels of gay and straight, all different variations of gender, all colors, all creeds. I'm into seeing that.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.

I do not believe in the creed professed by any church that I know of. Each of these churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my part, I disbelieve them all.

I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?

Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects. Work for peace in religion.

The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.

I will put the needs of the citizens of all creeds and backgrounds in our community over the needs of individuals who decide to break the law to come to our nation.

In the U.S., these sights are no longer a surprise to me. I see army generals, captains of industry, and politicians of all colours and creeds on American television.

We have come to a place now where our search for Truth must no longer be for the rewards; it must no longer be our seeking a creed to follow, but it must be our living a life.

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse.

When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious errors.

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