Quotes About Beliefs

The rise of any demagogue never happens overnight, and it's never the result of one election. It occurs because of the slow shift in beliefs and values that follows every self-justifying decision that citizens make. One step at a time.

That generation's shibboleths—well, you know. What

I have no beliefs," said her mother. "Only hopes.

If you want to know who you unconsciously believe you are, just take a look at your life, your surroundings, your relationship. Your life mirrors those deep beliefs.

So it was that I justified my morals and ethics. Everything became relative.

As soon as we become aware of money, we develop beliefs about it-- beliefs we cling to, sometimes for the rest of our lives, often at the cost of our souls.

Every money message we hold on to contains a fatal flaw; it impressions us in an incomplete world.

People do not necessarily vote in their self-interest. They vote their identity. They vote their values. They vote for who they identify with.

Septon Barth's claim that the Valyrians came to Westeros because their priests prophesied that the Doom of Man would come out of the land beyond the narrow sea can safely be dismissed as nonsense, as can many of Barth's queerer beliefs and suppositions.

Our cultural interpretations, our scientific and psychosocial beliefs and points of view, should be open to growth and change. Our viewpoints are not designed to be coveted. They are not property to be defended and maintained. They are only interpretations, mediators of our experience.

The ultimate intuitions on which ethics rests are not debatable, for they are not opinions we hazard but preferences we feel; and it can neither be correct nor incorrect that we feel them.

Humor has always been my tool of choice when confronting intolerance or ignorance, not only because "funny" material is much more likely to be shared (and thus seen), but also because I firmly believe we all, conservative or liberal, need to laugh more, even at ourselves, and even while standing up for our beliefs.

Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they say certain things only in order to assure themselves that they possess opinions and ideas that are different from those that are entertained by the common herd of men.

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

So many men, so many opinions.

There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.