Quotes About Belief

Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result, is no longer the consensus or ethos of our society.

Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.

A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda.

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.

You are the smartest children i know. You just don't beleive it.

I firmly believe the death tax is good for people from all walks of life all throughout our society.

Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.

Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.

Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.

The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life.

Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

I'm opposed to abortion because I happen to believe that life deserves the protection of society.

It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority's falsehood as truth, could be fatal.

I think it is really, really important that those of us who have deep faith lives don't feel that we could just substitute our own views for everybody else in society, regardless of their views.

What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure that the society we build with the Web is the sort we intend.

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.

I look at society and I look at people and I say... I'm not Mr. Motivator. I think you get a better sense - I believe in energy. I believe in passion. I believe in teaching people.

Lose some valuable things in very different places and wait for a while! If they come back to you, it means that you are living in an honest society and in a very rare one too!

One destructive mind-set that must be altered in our society is the thought that work is a curse.

Omens don't influence the eradication of a evil from a society. it's all upto you when YOU want.