Quotes of: Political-beliefs Keyword

Many people are born into their religion. For them it is mostly a matter of legacy and convenience. Their belief is based on faith, not just in the teachings of the religion but also in the acceptance of that religion from their family and culture. F...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics

Welcome to the Monkey House

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

John George Nicolay

A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high s...

On Politics: A New History of Political Philosophy

This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.

Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening

Progress has not brought about universal happiness...

The Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever

These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.

Michael Polanyi

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

He Still Moves Stones

If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

Maybe the reason faith is called faith is because seeing doesn’t lead to belief, but belief transforms the way we see.

Scarred Faith: When Doubts Become Allies of Deep Faith

When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?

State of Fear

Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.

Small Gods

One must not align himself with the beliefs that limit his thinking; free from all beliefs and superstitions; we all make difference.

A moment with God ; Poetry

Evil's when you push your agenda over someone else's. When you assert your beliefs over somebody's contrary beliefs. That's evil.

Turing Evolved

The belief in death leads meditating about life; meanwhile, the belief in life leads you thinking about death.

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.

Gail Kelly

If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option.

P.Z. Myers

I love belief it can move the pallet on a Ouija board or put a man into space. The problem that we have is the wrong beliefs we can't erase.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

Stephen Tobolowsky

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.

Leon Kass

My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have in common the greatest binding tie we could have. We are all black people!

Malcolm X