Word: dogmas
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...true spirit of democracy, it seems to me, is founded on the golden mean between destructive criticism on the one hand and complacent dogma on the other...
...France it was a brand-new dogma embroidered with brand-new catchwords and justified by brand-new reasoning. Rousseau's "natural equality of men," for which Frenchmen once fought a bloody revolution, would be discarded for a "social hierarchy" under which rich & poor, high & low, would have equal opportunities to prove their worth by serving the totalitarian State. The only "right" accorded impartially to all Frenchmen would be to work. Liberty, Pétain told his countrymen, had not existed in France for 20 years. "Besides, what would abstract liberty be worth in 1940 to an unemployed workman...
...post war writers for the effect of their work, although he could not deny the validity of the picture they painted. One may gather that if we are to join Mr. MacLeish in the Word hunt, we are to disregard truth and teach only that which serves our particular dogma. If we have learned an unpleasant fact which does not fit with our sympathies then we are to unlearn it as quickly as possible. The Yale News...
Author Stoddard, whose Rising Tide of Color made a stir 20 years ago, went into Germany last autumn, stayed three months as a special correspondent. His study of the Nazi State through its lower-middle-class functionaries, its multiplicity of iron, dogma-drenched organizations, its remorseless inner circle of lost, clever minds conveys the enormity of that revolution all the more vividly because Stoddard was not merely graveled; he was impressed...
...fully trustworthy, undermines his authority with the troops, paralyzes quick decision and active leadership in the field. At the Dictator's order last week Red Star, newsorgan of the Red Army, announced that Soviet officers have now been given "full power and responsibility," denounced the "dilettantism" and "ossified dogma" of the commissar system...