One of the most unfortunate side effects of the urban activism of the ’60s and ’70s is the belief that development is wrong and that fighting it makes you an environmentalist. – Alex Steffen
Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality. – Albert J. Nock
It is my belief that all gods are stories, or at least the ideas behind stories, but stories or ideas that have become in some way almost alive and aware. – Alan Moore
Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair. – Annie Dillard
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. – Ambrose Bierce
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction. – Christopher Lasch
It’s almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible. – Andrew Breitbart
I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I’m able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I’m able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere. – Alicia Keys
When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I’m trying to do. I’m frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper. – Barry Lopez
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise. – Charles Sanders Peirce
It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show. – Buffalo Bill
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion. – Allan Bloom
To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, encourages the illusion of impunity and induces the belief that, since there are pardons, those sentences which are not pardoned are violent acts of force rather than the products of justice. – Cesare Beccaria
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself. – Bertrand Russell
I feel that a lot of human spirituality stems from the belief that we are unique and special in the universe, but maybe we are just what happens when there is proper temperature and proper distance from the right type of star. – Alex Honnold
My core belief is that if you’re complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it. – Caitlin Moran
The word ‘belief’ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it. – Carl Jung
I have always played into the belief that you are only ever borrowing the jersey; you never own the jersey because someone has gone before you and there is going to be someone after you, so it’s a case of giving the jersey maximum respect. – Brian O’Driscoll
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion. – Ambrose Bierce
There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation. – Bridget Riley
I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck. – Aleister Crowley
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New. – Benjamin Whichcote
If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam. – Abdurrahman Wahid
We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new ‘Declaration of Inter-dependence.’ A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny. – Cory Booker
It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct. – Anna Howard Shaw