Quotes About Beliefs

You don't need to push your beliefs onto other people!

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

If you feel the government should leave you alone, you're a Republican. If you think the job of the government is to go push people around and take things for you, then you're a Democrat.

I'm not a left-wing nut pushing for single-payer!

My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.

Tithing is a bad ceiling but an excellent floor.

Folks are serious about three things: Their religion, their family and, most of all, their money.

One thing I will say about my father is that he was very much out in the forefront talking about his beliefs about being a complete fighter and attaching a philosophy to that and teaching it.

I'm not much of an economic conservative, and I'm not conservative at all on foreign policy.

Leftism in all its forms must be halted and turned back resoundingly.

I don't want to say that we are the world in that we are not distinct from each other. I want to say that the humanity that is our foundation is common, but my culture, my beliefs, my values, what makes me sing and what makes me happy and the language I speak in and the relationships I have in the world are distinctive.

America was founded on satanism.

I'm a big believer in the idea that one of the greatest advantages we have here in the United States is freedom of expression and freedom of speech. You should be able to say whatever you want, and I firmly believe that.

Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.

I believe in a core set of fundamental Republican values.

Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.

If you'd got a very conservative Republican in power, they might not be happy about some of the scientific research going on, because it conflicts with their fundamental beliefs.

We have a battle over the fundamentals of our country.

What some call superstructure, and what others call culture

She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of, and what you do.

Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child. Religion is the encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the hidden assumptions of trust in the universe, those pronouncements which men have made in search of personal power, all of it mingled with shreds of enlightenment. And always the ultimate unspoken commandment is 'Thou shalt not question!

Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.

Look at the evidence and to be willing to question your own truths, and to be willing to scrutinize things that you hold dearly because that way, that transparency, that self-awareness, will protect you from ever becoming somebody that whose beliefs somehow make them have myopic vision about what could be.

My guess is that while the elites would like cleaner air, they are not willing to give up the convenience of being able to use their cars at will to get it, perhaps because they believe (I suspect incorrectly) that they can protect themselves from the consequences of vehicular pollution by investing in air-conditioners and air purifiers.