Belief Quote by Jacob Weisberg

“Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard.”

— Iain Banks

He who does not live in the way of his beliefs starts to believe in the way he lives.

— Anonymous

“And ideology is a shared belief system, usually involving a vision of utopia, that justifies unlimited violence in pursuit of unlimited good.”

— Steven Pinker

Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.

— Tony Judt

“He was permitted, without restriction, to speak of himself as immoral, agnostic and socialistic, so long as it was universally known that he remained…

— Sinclair Lewis

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his…

— Theodor Adorno

He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means "I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have…

— Isaac Asimov

UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.

— Ambrose Bierce

All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“The person who believes the sum of his morality involves gay marriage and abortion alone, and neglects health care and world trade and the…

— Donald Miller

“Socialism, Puritanism, Philistinism, Christianity— he saw them all as allotropic forms of democracy, as variations upon the endless struggle of quantity against quality, of…

— H.L. Mencken

All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of…

— Suzanne La Follette