All 24 Uses of
doctrine
in
Atlas Shrugged
- She knew the general doctrine on sex, held by people in one form or another, the doctrine that sex was an ugly weakness of man's lower nature, to be condoned regretfully.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- She knew the general doctrine on sex, held by people in one form or another, the doctrine that sex was an ugly weakness of man's lower nature, to be condoned regretfully.†
Chpt 1.5
- She experienced an emotion of chastity that made her shrink, not from the desires of her body, but from any contact with the minds who held this doctrine.†
Chpt 1.5
- He came to believe the doctrine that this desire was wholly physical, a desire, not of consciousness, but of matter, and he rebelled against the thought that his flesh could be free to choose and that its choice was impervious to the will of his mind.†
Chpt 1.6
- His hatred of his own desire had made him accept the doctrine that women were pure and that a pure woman was one incapable of physical pleasure.†
Chpt 1.6
- This was the real sentence imposed upon him, he thought-to discover what idea, what simple idea available to the simplest man, had made mankind accept the doctrines that led it to self-destruction.†
Chpt 2.4
- It does take an exceptional mind and a still more exceptional integrity to remain untouched by the brain-destroying influences of the world's doctrines, the accumulated evil of centuries-to remain human, since the human is the rational.†
Chpt 3.2
- I rebelled against the doctrine that my productive ability was guilt-but I accepted, as guilt, my capacity for happiness.†
Chpt 3.3
- She wondered whether people accepted the doctrine of sacrifice provided its recipients did not identify the nature of their own claims and actions.†
Chpt 3.5
- We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.†
Chpt 3.7
- A doctrine that gives you, as an ideal, the role of a sacrificial animal seeking slaughter on the altars of others, is giving you death as your standard.†
Chpt 3.7
- They call it a morality of mercy and a doctrine of love for man.†
Chpt 3.7
- They seek to help him, they say, against his pain-and they point at the torture rack to which they've tied him, the rack with two wheels that pull him in opposite directions, the rack of the doctrine that splits his soul and body.†
Chpt 3.7
- Do you observe what human faculty that doctrine was designed to ignore?†
Chpt 3.7
- An action not caused by an entity would be caused by a zero, which would mean a zero controlling a thing, a nonentity controlling an entity, the non-existent ruling the existent-which is the universe of your teachers' desire, the cause of their doctrines of causeless action, the reason of their revolt against reason, the goal of their morality, their politics, their economics, the ideal they strive for: the reign of the zero.†
Chpt 3.7
- And to indulge your ugly little shams, you support the doctrines of your teachers, while they run hog-wild proclaiming that spending, the effect, creates riches, the cause, that machinery, the effect, creates intelligence, the cause, that your sexual desires, the effect, create your philosophical values, the cause.†
Chpt 3.7
- From the rites of the jungle witch-doctors, which distorted reality into grotesque absurdities, stunted the minds of their victims and kept them in terror of the supernatural for stagnant stretches of centuriesto the supernatural doctrines of the Middle Ages, which kept men huddling on the mud floors of their hovels, in terror that the devil might steal the soup they had worked eighteen hours to earn-to the seedy little smiling professor who assures you that your brain has no capacity…†
Chpt 3.7
- Destruction is the only end that the mystics' creed has ever achieved, as it is the only end that you see them achieving today, and if the ravages wrought by their acts have not made them question their doctrines, if they profess to be moved by love, yet are not deterred by piles of human corpses, it is because the truth about their souls is worse than the obscene excuse you have allowed them, the excuse that the end justifies the means and that the horrors they practice are means to…†
Chpt 3.7
- The sole result of that murderous doctrine was to remove morality from life.†
Chpt 3.7
- But the greater his terror, the more fiercely he clings to the murderous doctrines that choke him.†
Chpt 3.7
- It could not live by the mystic doctrine that damned this earth as evil and those who succeeded on earth as depraved.†
Chpt 3.7
- The modern mystics of muscle who offer you the fraudulent alternative of 'human rights' versus 'property rights,' as if one could exist without the other, are making a last, grotesque attempt to revive the doctrine of soul versus body.†
Chpt 3.7
- The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others; since the competent have nothing to gain from the incompetent, it means the right of the incompetent to own their betters and to use them as productive cattle.†
Chpt 3.7
- But to win it requires your total dedication and a total break with the world of your past, with the doctrine that man is a sacrificial animal who exists for the pleasure of others.†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(doctrine) a belief (or system of beliefs or principles) accepted as authoritative by some group