Quotes About Beliefs

Just because different cultures have different moral standards, even if the degree of moral diversity is not overstated, it does not follow that there is no such thing as absolute values that transcend culture.

A sixth weakness of relativism is that it allows no room for moral reformers or prophets.

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.

Every hero mirrors the time and place in which he lives. He must reflect men's innermost hopes and beliefs in a public way.

Every time I hear the word conservative it makes me sick to my stomach.

The miracle of your being cannot escape itself. Your thoughts blossom into events. Your beliefs grow as surely in time and space as flowers do.

We can also cling to the treasures of our faith and get rid of the things that are cluttering that. It is a time we are seeing some trending away from the things that were cluttering our faith.

My politics just kind of developed over time as a reaction.

Donald Trump's living in a different time, a time that is not a match for what Americans now believe about who our leaders should be.

I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

The odd superstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children and slaves in the West at the period of this story—that is to say, thirty or forty years ago.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

it wasn't necessarily events themselves that drove our emotions but our beliefs about or interpretations of those events.

It's been said that the entire philosophical foundation of Zen is contained in three small words: "Not always so." If you want to stop emotional eating (which means you'll eat only out of physical hunger, which means you'll eventually be the right weight for your body) you must become willing to apply those three words to your own beliefs. THE

By letting go of misguided beliefs, love and compassion can break through.

Or maybe there's one thing to say, about the capitalism of the heart, the belief that the essences of life too can be seized and hoarded, that you can corner the market on confidence, stage a hostile takeover of happiness. It's based on scarcity economics, the notion or perhaps the feeling that there's not enough to go around, and the belief that these intangible phenomena exist in a fixed quantity to be scrambled for, rather than that you can only increase them by giving them away.

Religion itself is a method of engaging the ultimate; the various religions are various methods of doing so; their histories are a record of the results of these efforts.

In America alone there are estimated to be nearly five hundred separate and distinct forms of Christianity.

What kind of justice is this? Where the poor go to prison and the rich go free. Where witnesses are rented, bought, or bribed. Where people are tried not because of any criminal actions but because of their political beliefs.

Throughout amerika's history, people have been imprisoned because of their political beliefs and charged with criminal acts in order to justify that imprisonment. Those who have dared to speak out against the injustices in this country, both Black and white, have paid dearly for their courage, sometimes with their lives.

Culture is the sum total of shared habits and expectations

More than 40 percent of oncologists admit to offering treatments that they believe are unlikely to work.

Every place has a deep-seated culture as to how things are done. Culture is the sum total of shared habits and expectations.