“Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.” BeliefLeftImaginationPoorExtraordinaryImaginativeGhettoDwellersVibrancy Author:Ben Okri
“The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.” PeopleMenWorldBelieveMayBeliefPoorForeverKnowingStreetsHe ManArmsCreaturesDoctrineNot KnowingUncertainWoundedPowerless Author:Phillips Brooks
“What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.” PeopleIfsBelieveHardYoungOpportunityBeliefI BelieveNationsSimplePoorPartyRaceResponsibilityRichHard WorkProfoundNotionRegionsTaking ResponsibilityGet AheadRich Or Poor Author:Barack Obama
“Eliminate irrelevant and inaccurate comunications about what it means to be male or female, black or white, young or old, rich or poor, disabled or temporarily able-bodied, or to hold a particular belief system.” MeanAbleYoungBeliefBlackWhitePoorRichParticularFemaleMalesIrrelevantDisabledBelief SystemsBlack Or WhiteRich Or Poor Author:Rosalie Maggio
“They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here.” PeopleKnowsMenKindStillsBeliefPoorGenerationsBuddhismOughtTreatsErrorsBottomBoundsObedienceProvidencePopeIncarnationTibetGreatest Man Author:Thomas Carlyle
“Liberals correctly perceive the Reagan record as their most dangerous enemy. Why? Because what happened during the 1980s - prosperity at home the longest period of peacetime growth in this nation's history, strength abroad - directly contradicts every liberal belief. Bill Clinton has confused many about the 1980s and the Reagan legacy. His patently false mantra states, "The rich got richer, the poor got poorer. The rich didn't pay their fair share, etc."” StatesHomeBeliefNationsGrowthPoorPayEnemyRichRecordsHappenedShareDangerousDangerPeriodsFairsBillsClintonProsperityLegacyPerceiveConfusedEtcMantrasFair Share Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, theblacks who became a "credit to their race," the women elected to high office, the handicapped who made "useful contributions" to our society.... Just as we believe in the self-sufficient family, we also believe that any child with enough grit and ability can escape poverty and make a rewarding life. But these stories and beliefs clearly reflect the exceptions.” BelieveChildrenMadeSelfSometimesEnoughFactsStoriesBeliefAbilityPoorRaceBoysPovertyOfficeCreditUnhappyMade ItSufficientContributionExceptionOur SocietyGritExclusionTelling StoriesSelf SufficientHandicappedPoor Boy Book:All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure
“Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.” MenBeliefPoorMankindVictimMiserableGood ManDoing Good Book:The Essential Writings Source: The Essential Writings
“Not only do I have a great love for the game of golf - no matter how badly I play it - but I have also the belief that through every kind of meeting, through every kind of activity to which we can bring together more often and more intimately peoples of our several countries, by that measure we will do something to solve the difficulties and the tensions that this poor old world seems nowadays to so much endure.” WorldKindCountryMatterPlaySeemsTogetherGamesBeliefSportsPoorActivityDifficultyMeetingsGolfEndureSolveTensionGreat LoveOld World Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Realize that your physical experience and environment is the materialization of your beliefs. If you find great exuberance, health, effective work, abundance, smiles on the faces of those who you meet, then take it for granted that your beliefs are beneficial. If you see a world that is good, people like you, take it for granted again, that your beliefs are beneficial. But if you find poor health, a lack of meaningful work, a lack of abundance, a world of sorrow and evil, then assume your beliefs are faulty and begin examining them.” PeopleIfsWorldFacesEvilBeliefRealizingPoorEnvironmentLike YouSorrowAssumingMeaningfulGrantedAbundanceGood PeopleBeneficialExaminingExuberanceMeaningful WorkPoor Health Author:Seth
“There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief is not an option for us. Political disappointment flows from the fact that there is injustice - that we live in a world that is radically unjust and violent, where might seems to equal right, where the poor are exploited by the rich, etc.” WorldTwoFactsSeemsMightFormPoliticalBeliefInterestReligiousPoorRichEqualFlowInjusticeDisappointmentViolentRealizationEtcUnjustReligious Belief Book:Impossible Objects Source: Impossible Objects