Belief Quotes

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.

I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

We have good security. It's hard to get in here. Barring a tactical entry where terrorists come in and hold us hostage, that's about the only thing that could possibly warrant me carrying a gun in the clubhouse. That's highly unlikely, and I admit that. But my personal belief is I don't want to suffer from the poor choices of others.

This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.

The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.

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

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

My belief in God is responsible for what I am... How can I refuse to talk about something which is so much a prt of my life both as a man and as a actor?

All money is a matter of belief.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite - what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.