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Letter "B" » Belief
«Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse»
«Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.»
Author: John Maynard Keynes
| About:
Belief,
Capitalism
| Keywords:
astound, astounded, astounding, astounds, capitalism, wickedest
«But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.»
Author: Kirsten Dunst
(Actress)
| About:
Belief,
Decision,
Self-confidence
| Keywords:
decisions, secure
«Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
annihilation, continued, distant, doomed, intolerable, sentient, sentient beings
«Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.»
«Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first»
«Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Belief,
Capitalism
| Keywords:
belief system, capitalist, comforts, considerations, discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, materialistic, motivated, primarily, vulgar
«Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Belief,
Capitalism
| Keywords:
backed, capitalism, effective power, self interest
«Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Belief,
Faith
| Keywords:
confronted, driven, excesses, free of, impossibility, inhuman, remaining
«Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact»
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