Belief in god Quote by Paul Ham

“This moving story of a small group of people, driven by a passionate belief in the strict purity of their devotion to the word…

— Adam Nicolson

“What is boasted of at the present time as the revival of religion, is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at least as much…

— John Stuart Mill

“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

“The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive…

— Joseph Conrad

“Inevitably, as hatred of monarchy was added to hatred of episcopacy, they were led to republicanism.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Old Conservatism, at least in its more principled forms, is, as has been aptly said, the ‘other God that failed’ alongside Communism and radical…

— Anthony Giddens

“a boundless contempt for everything outside their art, for society, and above all, for politics. (64)”

— Émile Zola

“They entrenched themselves in their preferences, their beliefs, their prejudices, and closed ranks against everything that was different”

— Gabriel García Márquez

In one way or another, this is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether "we, the people" is a spiritual idea…

— Bill Moyers

“This was the Evangelical Revival that now began to take hold on the propertied class, who, frightened by what was happening in France, were…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“In those moments of moving through the streets with people who share one's beliefs comes the rare and magical possibility of a kind of…

— Rebecca Solnit

“When, thirty-five years ago, I tried to give a summary of the ideas and principles of that social philosophy that was once known under…

— Ludwig von Mises