A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.
In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.
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.
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.
We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary.
Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.
The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.
Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.