Word: dogmas
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...problem, as the revolutionary armies and the party saw it in 1949, was Mao's thinking. "Mao Thought" should not be considered simply a dogma, or a slogan, least of all a coherent doctrine. It should be thought of as a spike, driven by the will of one man into the minds of his people, to nail them to his purpose. But in the next 25 years the spike was driven through the living flesh of people until they bled, or hungered, or died at random, until life became chaos. The spike had to be torn out or half China...
...shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by democratic faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, and in the final act, by determination and faith...
...discriminate between the sexes. But the Supreme Court has ruled that insurers offering retirement plans may not [July 18]. Equality has become so strong a dogma that we refuse to accept the fact that women do live longer than men. Thus by demanding that men and women contribute equally to pension plans and receive equal payments, the court is requiring men to subsidize women...
Almost alone among conservative columnists, moreover, he has refused to utter the ritual invocation that any departure by Reagan from right-wing dogma must be a result of his having been misled by aides. Repeatedly, Safire has been willing to put the onus for policy shifts squarely on the President. In January he wrote of what he regarded as Reagan's waffling in the State of the Union address: "He chose to be somebody else, or everybody else...
Chesterton was happiest in an arena he never really left: the nursery. The happy child turned into a neurotic adolescent haunted by unspecified guilts. He could only assuage them with religion. "Dogma," he was to conclude, "does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought." The childless man endlessly tried to recapture a youthful sense of wonder; almost all his works blink out at the world as if they were seeing it for the first time. Yet when he could tear himself away from toy theaters and critiques about "The Ethics of Elfland," he could toss...