Quotes About Beliefs

I believe in the traditional American family, and I will do everything that I can to promote, you know, families.

Graham promoted a white evangelical respectability that wanted to 'put the brakes' on the civil rights movement, and never really accepted women as equal to men. He may have been the country's greatest evangelist, but he was also an apologist for the racist and sexist beliefs pervasive among white evangelical men in 20th-century America.

I wouldn't say I'm against same-sex marriage. I believe in freedom and equality for all people. I believe that when it comes to gay marriage, that's a political and legal issue that has to be dealt with in that arena. I have privately held beliefs, but when it comes to that, it's properly placed in the political and legal arena.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

If you actually believe in free speech and not simply the free distribution of other people's intellectual property, you should let journalists, law firms, and investors exercise their rights to it alongside your own.

My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.

Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teachers in their children's schools, or as boarders in their home. They view this as protecting themselves and their families from a lifestyle that they believe to be immoral and destructive.

I believe in civil partnerships as it protects each partner. Whether I believe in marriage is a different thing.

I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My father is Protestant, and while he was spiritual, he wasn't much of a churchgoing person. I think it's fairly common for families to be brought up in the mother's religion.

It's the progressive left in this country that has viciously and systematically slimed female conservatives for their beliefs. We have the well-worn battle scars to prove it.

The best I can tell you in that way is that I'm much more at ease with fellow-Catholics than I am with heathens or Protestants. One has so many basic assumptions in common that there's so much that doesn't need saying, and when you're talking to even the most amusing and intelligent heathen you suddenly find that something you've said has no meaning at all to them.

An example of an incompatible innovation is the use of contraceptive methods in countries where religious beliefs discourage use of family planning, as in Moslem and Catholic nations.

An important factor regarding the adoption rate of an innovation is its compatibility with the values, beliefs, and past experiences of individuals in the social system.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

For two cents the voter buys his politics, prejudices, and philosophy.

Convicções profundas só as têm as criaturas superficiais. Os que não reparam para as coisas quase que as veem apenas para não esbarrar com elas, esses são sempre da mesma opinião, são os íntegros e os coerentes. A política e a religião gastam dessa lenha, e é por isso que ardem tão mal entre a Verdade e a Vida.

Con pequeños malentendidos con la realidad construimos las creencias y las esperanzas, y vivimos de las cortezas a las que llamamos panes, como los niños pobres que juegan a ser felices.

Quienes son respetables son las personas, no las creencias. Las opiniones no son todas respetables. Si así hubiese sido, la humanidad no habría podido avanzar un solo paso.

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

I'm kind of right in the middle - I'm an Independent, not far Left or far Right. But I don't think everyone needs to know about that, do they?

Information that confirms our beliefs makes us feel good; information that challenges our beliefs doesn't.

People are entitled to their own opinion to make them feel good, to make them sleep at night.

Growing up I was very feminist. I had strong opinions, but I would go about my beliefs in the wrong ways.

We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs.