Creed Quotes

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed. (Livy)
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer. View quote
E. M. Forster
I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe. View quote
William Howard Taft
I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me he can't be any worse. View quote
Mark Twain
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants' creed, the bees' creed. View quote
John Galsworthy
Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. (Thomas Paine)
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. View quote
William Pitt the Younger
You are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed. That has nothing to do with the business of the State. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. View quote
Bertrand Russell
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action. View quote
Bertrand Russell
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
Great God I 'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. View quote
William Wordsworth
Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires. View quote
Annie Besant
Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbors creed has lent. All are needed by each one Nothing is fair or good alone. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. View quote
Winston Churchill
The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed. View quote
Federica Montseny
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon. View quote
George Aiken
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all. View quote
Thomas Jefferson