Pastoral Resources

Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens.

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

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.

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

People like me have to have the discipline only to work for clients, corporations, political people, products, services, networks that we believe in and we want to see succeed.

However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.