Quotes About Beliefs

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.

I've always been a liberal and I've always had strong socialist leanings.

My grandfather had strong opinions. He was an argumentative character and quite staunchly socialist.

It is wrong to believe that Hispanics are Democrats. Hispanics are traditionally and historically conservative, not just socially conservative, but fiscally conservative.

I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.

I am a socially liberal libertarian who is not for open borders.

There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.

Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.

There's no permanent, fixed class consciousness. You can't work out immediately what people think and what politics they have simply by looking at their socio-economic position.

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

Principles, convictions and motives are neither sold nor bargained for!

I am extremely grateful and humbled by the solidarity and support expressed by countless persons, ex-judges, lawyers, activists and fellow citizens who encouraged me to remain firm and true to my beliefs and conscience.

With nonfiction, I had to learn how to be a clear communicator, but it was also a relief to be able to articulate some of my political ideas and beliefs. I also try to do that in my fiction, but I'm more interested in asking questions that lead to more questions, mysteries that lead to more mysteries, rather than immediate answers and solutions.

I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.

As conservatives, we support free market principles and believe the private sector provides solutions that the government cannot.

I could try to incorporate or reflect in my models what it is that an employee, manager, or entrepreneur does: to recognize that most are engaged in their work, form expectations and evolve beliefs, solve problems, and have ideas. Trying to put these people into economic models became my project.

Everybody runs for political office knocking somebody, and very few run on 'This is what I stand for. This is what I believe will solve these problems.'

Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.

We believe that in times like these we should turn to each other, not on each other. We believe that government has a role to play, not in solving every problem in everybody's life but in helping people help themselves to the American dream. That's what Democrats believe.

We really need to move to a bit of a post-partisan world where we actually start solving problems and stop kind of living in a country where the political leaders act like half the country is entirely wrong about everything they believe and increasingly try to pit American against American.

I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.

I have a very deep belief that all the problems in society are not because some people are bad and some people are good and we have to get rid of all the wrong people. Everything that we want to fix is because of a flaw in humans in general, something that humans together do incorrectly.