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I'm not a criminal or a radical. I'm not 'dangerous.' I'm a human being with opinions and beliefs that I have a right to express.
The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.
Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
We live in an extremely anxious age in which the core of our beliefs has been undermined to a great extent by scientific thinking.
All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
In the real world, people go against my beliefs all the time, and I don't make it my place to - like, I'm not super confrontational.
I wouldn't suppose for one moment that there's a single one of Trump's voters that would be anything but confirmed in their beliefs.
The renaissance movement and social reformers have taught us that superstitious beliefs and customs should be challenged and opposed.
No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?
Generally, people don't change their minds about fundamentally deeply held beliefs; it doesn't happen in an instant - it's a process.
It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.
Objecting to someone because of his religious beliefs is not the same thing as prejudice based on religious heritage, race, or gender.
I'm not a political person; I'm not an activist. I'm not a guy with strong beliefs about anything. I have nothing to say to the world.
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.
Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.
In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.
It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.
I think there's nothing about evolution in the Bible; I think this is a statement of religious insecurity. But people have their beliefs.
I've tried to live my life in a way that respects the beliefs of my mother and father. Everyone has blessings, gifts, passion, and drive.
Our party was built upon the beliefs of President Abraham Lincoln, who took the significant step to put us on the long path for equality.
Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.
Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.
There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.
Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.
I believe that the idea of strategic beliefs may be more important than strategic planning when thinking about how you keep the long view.
When blacks become humanly visible, when their true beliefs are known, their mask shatters and their symbiotic bond with whites is broken.
I believe in my Mormon faith, and I endeavor to live by it. My faith is the faith of my fathers - I will be true to them and to my beliefs.
Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.
My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.
The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.
I hope that increasing numbers of Christians adopt the practice of wearing a cross in a simple and discreet way as a symbol of their beliefs.
College is an environment designed to encourage openness - the ability to think of things in novel ways and entertain unconventional beliefs.
In a strange way, we go to a play to be entertained, but if there is any kind of identification, we either reaffirm our beliefs, or we change.
Negativity is like a blood clot, and actively disengaged employees sometimes clot together in groups that support and reinforce their beliefs.
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.
I enjoy talking pitching and talking baseball. And I don't have all the answers. I don't claim to, but I'm more than happy to share my beliefs.
I'm a true centrist: my beliefs put me in the middle... You know what happens to people who drive in the middle of the road? They get run over.
Pixar is a community in the true sense of the word. We think that lasting relationships matter, and we share some basic beliefs: Talent is rare.
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
Whether Trump knew it or not, his strong language tapped into evangelical beliefs about the 'last days' and America's role in biblical prophecy.
The apartheid people were actors, and they had to act out their part in their beliefs every day. That's why we always saw them as being comedic.
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
People have a lot of different beliefs, and at the end of the day, we all have deeply held beliefs that probably don't make sense to anyone else.
At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.
If you have a pre-conceived idea of the world, you edit information. When it leads you down a certain road, you don't challenge your own beliefs.
I don't discuss my own beliefs in public, but I will say the beliefs I've given my characters do not necessarily represent what I myself believe.
I am a Christian. I haven't really talked about that before. It is something very private. But I do pray and my beliefs are very important to me.