The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside.
My belief is that we should never become overconfident.
George Washington participated as a vestryman in his local congregation, but that didn't really imply any particular kind of religious belief. This was necessary in order to participate in the society.
Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision, obscuring reality and challenging belief.
Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable belief in the common sense of the individual.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.
This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.
I have a very deep religious belief.
The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.
I'm completely lacking any sense of religious belief, but I am superstitious.
We know that at conception, the genetic code is there for a unique individual. This is not something that is just a religious belief.
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham.
The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.
Historically, people have flocked to Silicon Valley because of the belief that that's where the latest innovation is happening. It's a snowball effect.
Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man... Each virtuous deed is strong when it is grounded upon the solidity of belief.
