Quotes About Beliefs

The Nazis could not have won the support of the German masses but for the systematic preaching of a complex array of theories, doctrines, opinions, notions, beliefs. And not one of their central beliefs was original. They found those beliefs, widespread and waiting, in the culture; they seized upon them and broadcast them at top volume, thrusting them with a new intensity back into the streets of Germany.

There is a dualism inherent in democracy--opposing forces pushing against each other, always. Culture clashes. Different belief systems. All coming together to create this country. But this balance takes a great deal of energy.

In this life, you have to work with people you dislike. You find compromises. But sometimes you find that a person's beliefs are so harmful that you must speak against them. You can't let such harmful statements stand without challenge. They have a tendency to grow into tumors.

People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense—words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions—words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History.

In this life, you have to work with people you dislike. You find compromises. But sometimes you find that a person's beliefs are so harmful that you must speak against them. You can't let such harmful statements stand without challenge. They have a tendency to grow into tumors.

There is no greater power on this earth than story. People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense - words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions - words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History.

People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense --- words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions --- words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History. The Diviners by Libba Bray page 407 paragraph 7, sentences 3 - 10

There is no greater power on this earth than story." Will paced the length of the room. "People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense—words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions—words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History.

That I feel the need to defend myself shames me. I did what I had to do that day to save my life. But ingrained beliefs are difficult to exorcise no matter how valiant the attempt. I've always considered myself an enlightened woman. But I was raised Amish and some of those old values will always be a part of me.

The Partisan case was advanced as well by Trilling's insistence that what commends modernist writing to progressive readers is, precisely, the challenge it often makes to progressive belief: "The contemporary authors we most wish to read and most wish to admire for their literary qualities demand of us a great agility and ingenuity in coping with their antagonism to our social and political ideals.

So many think we must share the same beliefs to get along. In my experience, sharing the same fear is a far more effective strategy.

Anything that is public display that will cause disruption to the beliefs of society of course would have to be curtailed.

Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!

Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.

Setting aside labels, I am somebody who believes that government in a democratic society should be representing the needs of the vast majority of the people who are middle-class and working families.

Religion keeps society divided. Spirituality unites it.

Because I am a deep believer in the civil society, I think we should be prepared to pay the consequences of breaking the law and that is either paying the penalty for it, or leaving the country.

There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.

Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.