Quotes About Beliefs

Religion is a very sensitive subject and reason for wars all over the world.

I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.

Wholeness is never lost, it is only forgotten. Integrity rarely means that we need to add something to ourselves: it is more an undoing than a doing, a freeing ourselves from beliefs we have about who we are and ways we have been persuaded to 'fix' ourselves to know who we genuinely are.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

He still had, you see, illusions about Christians.

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

Nehru was a well-read and widely travelled man. Through his travels and readings, he arrived at a synthesis of socialism and liberalism that he thought appropriate to his country. In other words, the political beliefs he came to profess – and invited the people of India to share – were his own.

We are all victims of people's perceptions, yet we judge others by our perceptions!

People are not controlled by some internal calculator that crudely motivates them to maximize their reproductive success. Instead, people form deep, lifelong emotional attachments and experience loves and hates that shape their lives. They have religious beliefs that guide their behavior, and they have idiosyncratic goals and ambitions. They have networks of friends and relatives.

women who were widowed or made homeless joined the nearest army, offering their services more to avoid starvation than to further their political beliefs.

we each construct our own reality by interpreting the external world on the basis of our unique experiences with it and our beliefs about those experiences.

People don't take kindly to having others mess around with their beliefs....

No validation of our rationality - of our very sanity - can be accomplished using our rationality itself. How can a person operating within a system of beliefs, including beliefs about beliefs, get outside that system to determine whether it is rational? If your entire system becomes infected with madness, including the very rules by which you reason, then how can you ever reason your way out of your madness?

I am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians.

I don't have to agree with everything a candidate does to support him.

I don't have great thoughts about a lot of Republican candidates.

The Modi government believes that the industrialist, the capitalist, has to pay for the assets of the government which belong to the people of India.

The left and right are not religious categories. They're often not even value categories.

I would put myself towards left of center.

I have values I believe in and certain things I stand for.

Persuading employees to let go of old values and beliefs and adopt new ones can be challenging.

I never used to charge religious groups.

I was brought up working class in east London with my own thoughts and my own beliefs and, when I began playing, I got involved in charity work and expanded those beliefs.

Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity.