Creed

Examples

• I could not blame them, for I knew how strong a hold a creed, however ridiculous it may be, may gain upon an otherwise intelligent people. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• No creed possesses any final sanction. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In these later days there is in fact, a decided loosening in the creed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The creed of a Rousseau, for example, is active in politics, not for what it says, but for what people think it says. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The creed, as I should state it now, was this. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• They may continue to practice some of its moral teachings and hold to some of its creed, but the Christian impulse is for them no longer active. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The night is over, the day breaks clear— Such is your creed, my friend. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Another creed! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The feeling that man is a creature and not a creator is disastrous as a personal creed when you come to act. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• At ease with him, I could defend my creed and faith in my own fashion; in some degree I could lull his prejudices. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• About the same time he married, restored the money that had long been owing, and formulated his ethical code and religio us creed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Opposition to slavery was not a creed of either political party. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I walk by another creed, light, faith, and hope than you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It is more penetrating, in my opinion, to ask of a creed whether it served than whether it was true. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It marks the exact definition of Christian teaching by the Nicene Creed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Political creeds must receive the same treatment. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Jean-Jacques is in fact a supreme case--perhaps even a slight caricature--of the way in which formal creeds bolster up passionate wants. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• His constructions, his formal creeds, his law-making and social arrangements are local and temporary--for us they can have only an antiquarian interest. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• We are just beginning to see how creeds are made. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The new effort proposes to fit creeds and institutions to the wants of men, to satisfy their impulses as fully and beneficially as possible. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Few tombs on earth command the veneration of so many races and men of divers creeds as this of Joseph. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• What Nietzsche has done here is, in his swashbuckling fashion, to cut under the abstract and final pretensions of creeds. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Suppose we recognize that creeds are instruments of the will, how would it alter the character of our thinking? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The religious investigations of William James were a study, not of ecclesiastical institutions or the history of creeds. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The men like Nietzsche and James who show the wilful origin of creeds are in reality the best watchers of the citadel of truth. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Mr. Zimmern's approach is common enough in modern scholarship, but the full significance of it for the creeds we ourselves are making is still something of a novelty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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