#beliefs

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. ↗

— Mark Twain

#politics #religion #religion

It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#eragon #oromis #religion #religion

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#astrology #atheism #belief #beliefs #magic

Leaders that wear the largest hats have few armies to attack a land so this leads them to be sly and cunning as they extend their hand. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#religion

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. I do not believe that, on the balance, religious belief has been a force for good. Although I am prepared to admit that in certain times and places it has had some good effects, I regard it as belonging to the infancy of human reason, and to a stage of development which we are now outgrowing. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#rationality #religion #religion

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him. ↗

— Roland Allen

#beliefs #does #grow #help #him

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. ↗

— Richard Bach

#make #men #strong #strong men #stronger

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. ↗

— James Baldwin

#beliefs #confronted #driven #equal #excesses

...into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#love #love

You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs. ↗

— Bryan Clay

#follow #sacrifice #who #you #your