When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.
The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.
Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs.
Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.
The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.
Whatever your beliefs are, you do not have to justify them to others.
One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre.
An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life.
I think the average American, if they go to the workplace, somebody's next to 'em, they're not poking around trying to figure out what their religious beliefs are.
I'll drown my beliefs. To have you be in peace.
I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now.
We learn our belief systems as very little children, and then we move through life creating experiences to match our beliefs. Look back in your own life and notice how often you have gone through the same experience.
[O]ld beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs. . . Ours are not Western values. They are the universal values of the human spirit and anywhere, any time, ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same. Freedom not tyranny. Democracy not dictatorship. The rule of law not the rule of the secret police. The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defence and our first line of attack.
If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.
Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there
This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.
Passionate leaders driven by passionate beliefs draw passionate followers.
I think it is wrong for the federal government to force Christian individuals, businesses, pastors, churches to participate in wedding ceremonies that violate our sincerely held religious beliefs. We have to stand up and fight for religious liberty. That's where this fight is going.
