Quotes About Belief

How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin

America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety.

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

Crecemos con el poderoso mensaje de nuestros progenitores calentándonos la cabeza y a menudo terminamos creyendo que sus deseos son nuestros deseos y que somos resposables de sus carencias

El peor enemigo de la creatividad es dudar de una misma», decía Plath

Somos sólo palabras, palabras que retumban en el éter. Palabras musitadas, gritadas, escupidas, palabras repetidas millones de veces o palabras apenas formuladas por bocas titubeantes. Yo no creo en el Más Allá, pero creo en las palabras. Todas las palabras que las personas hemos dicho desde el principio de los tiempos se han quedado dando vueltas por ahí, suspendidas en el magma del Universo. Esa es la eternidad: un estruendo inaudible de palabras.

Tal vez las rutinas nos cieguen y sólo veamos lo que creemos que debemos ver.

Podemos mejorar. Pero para eso tenemos que creer en las posibilidades de la democracia, y defenderla, y trabajar para perfeccionarla. Ten confianza.

Porque el mentiroso que consigue copiosas alabanzas y pingües beneficios con sus mentiras prefiere creer que no está mintiendo y que todo lo que ha obtenido es merecido.

People believe in conspiracies because it's a way of believing that deep down, horror has some order and meaning, even if that meaning is evil. We don't support chaos, but there's no question that life is

People believe in conspiracies because it's a way of believing that deep down, horror has some order and meaning, even if that meaning is evil. We don't support chaos, but there's no question that life is totally senseless. Pure sound and fury.

Ao ler o livro, podes ter a fraqueza de pensar que aquilo que lês acontecerá de modo irremediável, e com isso, sem te dares conta, tu o estás transformando em realidade. Mas a verdade é que, afora a morte, não existe nada irremediável, exceto a própria covardia. Os homens costumam chamar de destino aquilo que lhes acontece quando perdem as forças para lutar.

Emmanuel Carrère opina lo mismo: <>.

la realidad, aunque rebelde, termina por parecerse a nuestros sueños, si éstos se sueñan con la suficiente perseverancia.

universo eterno y ordenado resulta mucho más consolador que esa atroz estupidez del ciego azar. Pero

Each in its own way, the five major belief systems of Judaism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity and Islam by their nature insisted on the inferiority of women and demanded their subjection to values and imperatives devised to promote the supremacy of men.

Patriarchy changed all that. With a genuine belief in the one God came the inescapable duty to enforce it upon others; with the claim to the patent on truth came for the first-time ideas of orthodoxy, habits of bigotry and the practice of persecution.

All so-called laws of God express in reality the will of man.

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

As for God, I frankly admit that I find it easier to live with the ageold questions about suffering than with many of the easy or pious explanations offered from time to time. Some of which seem to verge on blasphemy.

torture and killing were as ingrained a part of their lives and beliefs as breathing. Such behavior was expected by the Comanche.

No aceptar ningún dogma sino hasta ver si es capaz de resistir un buen chiste

No diré con los otros que también me olvidaste. No ingresaré en el coro de los que te desprecian ni seguiré al ejército blasfemo. Si no existes yo te haré a semejanza de mi anhelo, a imagen de mis ansias.

Y se hubiera creído que eran sollozos los espasmos repentinos que sacudían el pecho de aquellas mujeres si sus pupilas, tercamente fijas en el altar, no estuvieran veladas