B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Belgian Congo forms with the motherland a single state with a single nationality. The Congolese people live within the national borders of the Belgian state. No other country has the right to intervene in the way a sovereign state governs itself. To reinforce its argument, Belgium decided to stop transmitting information about its colony and stop participating in the meetings of the Special Committee - and for that we do not need the approval of the General Assembly.”
“Belgian shepherds are hard work, but I realised that they were still easier than most grown men.”
Source: Reham Khan
“Belgisch Congo stond nooit onder de heerschappij van Leopold II, en de 52 jaar van deze kolonie van 1908 tot 1960 waren de enige periode van goed bestuur die deze achterlopende regio ooit heeft gekend.”
“Belgium does not owe its wealth to te exploitation of the Congo. In the 19th century, Belgium was the second-most industrialised country in the whole world. It is true that the colonisation of the Congo was undoubtedly an enterprise with an economic agenda that yielded much profits to those who took part of it, It is also undeniable that it had a favorable outcome for the Belgian economy. But it was also a "win-win" issue for all concerned, including the Congolese.”
“Belgium had no prior history in the slave trade, nor of African slaves. Léopold could fight against slavery without any hint of hypocrisy, even of the ahistorical type advanced by Hochschild. And it was slavery, not rubber operations, that contemporary observers viewed as the biggest threat to the people of the Congo.”
Source: King Hochschild’s Hoax: An absurdly deceptive book on Congolese rubber production is better described as historical fiction.
“Belgium has granted Independence to Congo and it must be clear to everyone that it is impossible to reconsider this decision and it is also not the view of the government”
“Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.”
“Belgium is a country with a split personality.”
“Belgium is modernizing itself and it gives me joy.”
“Belgium is not a Nation.”
“Belgium is the best remedy against patriotism.”
“Belgium's returning of Patrice Lumumba's 'trophy tooth' to the family in the Democratic Republic of the Congo shouldn't excite one. Patrice was just a thorn to their interests which have not changed.”
“Belgium should become the capital of the empire of Belgium, which, with the help of God, will consist of Borneo, islands in the Pacific, some places in Africa and America and also territories of China and Japan. I am the only one pursuing this for now, but by over-exposing the national fever, I will find support and create apostles.”
“Belgium then had the wisdom not to oppose the current of history, and-a deed without precedent in the story of peaceful decolonisation-she let our country pass directly from foreign domination to full independence.”
“Belgium's not a hotpot of international football”
“Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King and, faced with the choice to acquiesce or resist, took less than three hours to make her decision, knowing it might be mortal.”
“België is enorm conservatief, dat is omdat we een klein land zijn, dat is ongelofelijk, Leopold II zij het al, die zij: Petit pays, petit esprit.”
“België moet de hoofdstad worden van het keizerrijk België, dat met de hulp van God zal bestaan uit Borneo, eilanden in de Stille Oceaan, enkele plaatsen in Afrika en Amerika en eveneens gebieden van China en Japan. Ik ben voorlopig de enige die dit nastreeft, maar door de nationale koorts over te belichten, zal ik steun vinden en apostelen creëren.”
“Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.”
“Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.”
“Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.”
Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Belial came last, than whom a spirit more lewd,
Fell not from Heaven, or more gross to love
Vice for itself: to him no temple stood
Or altar smoked; yet who more oft than he
In temples and at altars, when the priest
Turns atheist, as did Eli's sons, who filled
With lust and violence the house of God.
In courts and palaces he also reigns
And in luxurious cities, where the noise
Of riot ascends above their loftiest tow'rs”
Source: Paradise lost
“Belie should be a conscious choice, not something you're brainwashed into when you're too young to understand or question it. Faith isn't something you pass down like an heirloom. It's not tangible or absolute. Not even for a priest. It's something you have to keep working at, like marriage or children.”
Source: The Burning Girls
“Belief about God is religion. Belief in God is faith.”
“Belief and confusion are not mutually exclusive; I believe that belief gives you the direction in the confusion. But you don't see the full picture. That's the point. That's what faith is. You can't see it. It comes back to instinct. Faith is just up the street. Faith and instinct, you can't just rely on them. You have to beat them up. You have to pummel them to make sure they can withstand it, to make sure they can be trusted.”
“Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.”
Source: The Lazarus Project
“Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, of doubting, or refusing to believe, that a certain thing is, is continuing to act as if it were not.”
Source: The Will to Believe, Human Immortality and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
“Belief and faith are great, but very few people have been led astray by thinking for themselves.”
“Belief and faith have nothing to do with each other. Beliefs are the manifestation of fear whereas faith comes from courage.”
“Belief and faith, lies and truth, might lie in the same bed but are mortal enemies. Most do not know this and answers why the world is in trouble today. Belief is the acceptance of an assumption. Belief is a gamble, an addiction. Truth must be observed to work for oneself and the majority of all concerned. Another word for truth is faith. And only by faith can the manifestation of any creation - something that didn't exist before take place. Faith is a certainty, to know without doubt of that which works. To believe anything is to also accept the lie within its core - be LIE ve.”
“Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.”
“Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe.”
Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.”
Source: The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time
“Belief and seeing are both often wrong.”
Source: Official Teacher's Guide for The Fog of War: An Errol Morris Film
“Belief arises from honesty, consistency, and care.”
Source: Notes from the Brand Stand: Thoughts on Emotional Branding from Someone Who Has Fought for Consumer Attention and Won
“Belief as such always has doubt at the bottom. It's knowing that makes wizardry work. Only knowing can banish doubt.”
Source: Deep Wizardry
“Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.”
“Belief builds from scratch. Doesn’t have to relax, it doesn’t need space”
“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
Source: Dune Messiah
“Belief cannot argue with unbelief, it can only preach to it.”
“Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.”
“Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience.”
Source: God Is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu...: God Dwells with Us, in Us, Around Us, as Us
“Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief.”
Source: Commentaries on Living 2
“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.”
“Belief creates behaviors.”
“Belief creates biology.”
“Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.”
“Belief creates the actual fact.”
“Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.”
Source: Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense
“Belief dies away like desire for a woman”