We are not bound by any political or economic dogma.

Values are acquired doctrine and dogma are imposed the two opposing mechanisms.

Well, like most fanatical dogma in America, these ideas come from old Puritan beliefs.

Professor Hawkins Has Promulgated an Official Dogma Binding on All Loyal Hawkinsians That an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs.

It must help us to come together on issues related to trade, finance and development in an environment free from prejudice and dogma.

In this respect, no position should be embraced as if it were a dogma, for the status quo is not in our collective interest.

Few Pakistanis have the time or inclination to think about their founder s ideas. Jinnah s idea of Pakistan South Asian Muslim nationalism has been overrun by the dogma of Islamic universalism.

The spat resulted from an attempt to set politics above the laws of economics. The dogma of European policymakers infallibility and the irrevocability of every step toward integration collided with reality.

Confidence is a self fulfilling prophecy, and we can, and should, manage it by direct intervention in asset markets. The way ahead leads through science, not ideology, dogma, or failed theories.

We regard China as the world's future development direction. In particular, Marxism Leninism is not a dogma. It is a philosophy, and must be adapted to the development of the country itself.

Donald Rumsfeld s dogma of military transformation the technological upgrading of an army s capacity to enable decisive victory with fewer troops failed resoundingly in Iraq. Nor could Israel, with its overwhelming technological advantage, defeat Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Where the atheist assault is often correct is in pinpointing the amount of harm frequently done in our world by such fundamentalists. Right wing American attitudes about their country s place in the world are invigorated by fundamentalist dogma.

Canada s top environmentalist, David Suzuki, stated earlier this year that politicians complicit in climate change should be thrown in jail. Campaigner Mark Lynas envisions Nuremberg style international criminal tribunals against those who dare to challenge the climate dogma.

The lessons are simple to understand, if difficult to master Don t believe everything you read, be willing to challenge dogma, and recognize that you may pay a price for it career wise in the short run, even if you are correct.

In the short term, the iron fisted Naif, as Crown Prince, will push the Kingdom into greater repression, in part by strengthening the hardline Wahhabi clerics place in the country s power nexus. Magnificent sums of money, backed by Wahhabi dogma, will be deployed to ensure popular submission and silence.

The story of humans is the story of ideas scientific ideas that shine light into dark corners, ideas that we embrace rationally and irrationally, ideas for which we've lived and died and killed and been killed, ideas that have vanished in history, and ideas that have been set in dogma.

The party did choose Europe over dogma in 1983, when Mitterrand decided to remain in the European Monetary System. But the party never debated or theorized this choice, simply accepting former Prime Minister Lionel Jospin s claim that the fiscal stability and financial modernization resulting from the decision was but a parenthesis.

He and his followers never envisaged ordoliberalism as an unchangeable dogma, but rather as a model that could be adapted to new challenges. Erhard even attempted to adjust it to the sociopolitical changes of the 1960s, developing the concept of a formed society, whereby factionalism would be minimized and the state governed by consensus.

And in that 15 percent, the main focus is on human mind, thinking skills, somehow trying to unleash kids from the straightjacket of school, which is putting information and dogma into them, get them so they really think, ask tough questions, argue about serious subjects, don't believe everything that's in the book, think broadly or creative. They can be.

Left wing ideology, especially in Britain, owed more to certain Christian moral traditions ( more Methodist than Marx ) than to any political dogma. Labour leaders like Clement Attlee, the first prime minister after World War II, were not opposed to a market economy they just wanted to regulate markets in such a way that might best serve working class interests.

This entails abandoning the prevailing dogma that taxes should only be increased when absolutely necessary. This stance assumes that lower tax rates raise the tax GDP ratio by ensuring better compliance with tax laws, and favors indirect taxation (such as value added taxes) in order to broaden the tax base to include those with modest incomes.

First and foremost, the dogma that solid public finances and, more broadly, a functioning state can be achieved only through painful austerity is an illusion. When forced to choose between their societies and their clientele, politicians may well decide that allowing social tensions to rise even to dangerous levels is better than sacrificing their own power bases.

Though now better off than they have ever been in material terms, the Chinese people under the current regime are denied any real opportunity to retain and refine their own dignity beyond the quest for wealth and luxury goods. Liu s prize is a rebuke to the regime, because it rejects the dogma that nothing but the pursuit of economic interest matters.

Al Qaeda is not the primary danger to Yemen s security and stability, but Yemen s geography and political problems are well suited to its activities. A particularly attractive feature is the prevalence of the severe Wahhabi religious dogma, which was exported to Yemen by Saudi Arabia but now provides fertile ground for recruiting disaffected young Yemeni men for assaults on Saudi Arabia.

The lessons are simple to understand, if difficult to master Don t believe everything you read, be willing to challenge dogma, and recognize that you may pay a price for it career wise in the short run, even if you are correct. But the rewards of scientific discovery are worth it technology advances, and the world can become much better for it.

From employing its strong trade position to exploiting its near monopoly on the global production of vital resources like rare earth minerals, China has staked out a more domineering role in Asia. In fact, the more openly China has embraced market capitalism, the more nationalist it has become, encouraged by its leaders need for an alternative to Marxist dogma as a source of political legitimacy.

Indeed, she had no choice but to concede and agree to far reaching changes to the EU s new fiscal compact that will ease refinancing of the crisis countries and their banks. The German dogma of no payments without counter performance and control was thus off the table, and the bargain struck in the early hours of the morning was exactly the opposite of what she had wanted.

If someone came to my door and I was hearing Catholic theology and dogma for the very first time, and they said, We believe that God impregnated a very young girl without the use of intercourse, and the fact that she was a virgin is maniacally important to us and she had a baby, and that's the son of God, I mean, I would think that's equally ridiculous.

In his classic defense of freedom of expression, On Liberty, John Stuart Mill argued that the most important reason for freedom of expression is to promote competition between the widest possible range of ideas, and that unfettered debate is the best way to test them. For the government to protect ideas from criticism is to turn them into a lifeless and rigid dogma, regardless of whether they are true.