Quotes About Belief

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.

I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot.

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.

I think the evangelicals think they're in a holy war now.

You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.

We believe US threats of an approaching World War III and their use of Iran's nuclear issue as an excuse is another form of American insanity.

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.

When you look at the history of wars, they ultimately revolve around one claim: "My god is better than yours."

Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

They say in death our war is over. I don't believe that.

I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry.

God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning.Surely, while we live we are not lost.Oh Janos, Janos my brother!Surely we are not lost--while we live.

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.

They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say the same thing about the distance between good and evil.

There are no atheists in the foxhole.

I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.

The issue is now quite clear. It is between light and darkness and every one must choose his side.

If you are not a Conchie, what are you man?' demanded the Major.After some moments' thought, Francis said, 'I am a human being who does not believe in killing my fellow man for insufficient reason.

Shepherds use religion to fight wars, sheep fight over religion.

The longer he remained on this earth, the more he was sure that mankind had no clue about God or heaven. Not when they used him as an excuse to kill, to punish, to discriminate.