“Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.” BeliefStrongDependentSatireWounded Author:Anita Brookner
“Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.” ShouldFactsWould BeBeliefMoralProveAcknowledgeAssumptionDependentFactualMoral Beliefs Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“According to theism, if a universe is to have any probability of existing, this probability is dependent upon God's beliefs, desires and creative acts. But the Hartle-Hawking probability is not dependent on any supernatural considerations; Hartle and Hawking do not sum over anything supernatural in their path integral derivation of the probability amplitude.” IfsDesireReligionUniverseBeliefCreativePathDependentConsiderationProbabilityTheism Author:Quentin Smith
“When I talk of forgiveness I mean the belief that you can come out the other side ... a better person than the one being consumed by anger and hatred. Remaining in that state locks you in a state of victimhood, making you almost dependent on the perpetrator. If you can find it in yourself to forgive then you are no longer chained to the perpetrator. You can move on.” IfsMeanPersonsStatesHelpingMovingBeliefSidesHatredForgivingDependentLocksConsumedBetter PersonChainedVictimhoodPerpetrators Author:Desmond Tutu