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When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.

There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really.

Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal.

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.