Belief Quote by Anonymous

Not so long ago people believed in ideologies, systems, and institutions to save all societies. Today, they have given up such hopes and have…

— Dalai Lama

What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put…

— Terence McKenna

“The American experiment was based on the emergence in the second half of the eighteenth century of a fresh new possibility in human affairs:…

— Al Gore

“attempting to understand what could have eroded our sense of community, an important role has traditionally been accorded to the privatization of religious belief…

— Alain de Botton

In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it…

— Simon Schama

“The great compromise between the American religious impulse and the American Enlightenment in the 1700s permitted any and every conceivable sect to bud and…

— Kurt Andersen

I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our nation be preserved and perpetuated.

— David O. McKay

We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief

— Jacques Ellul

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

— Jonathan Sacks

The core of the American set of beliefs has remained pretty constant.

— Samuel P. Huntington

“As a concerned American colleague writes to me: 'Europeans need to know there is a traveling theo-freak show which actually advocates reinstatement of Old…

— Richard Dawkins