„As a result of more contact with people from other traditions, as time passes I have firmed my conviction that all religions can work together despite fundamental differences in philosophy.“

„I do not shrink from uttering my firm conviction that it would be a gain to the country were it vastly more superstitious, more bigoted, more gloomy, more fierce in its religion than at present it shows itself to be.“

—  John Henry Newman English cleric and cardinal 1801 - 1890

Apologia Pro Vita Sua [A defense of one's own life] (1864)

„Islam is my religion, but I believe my religion is my personal business. It governs my personal life, my personal morals. And my religious philosophy is personal between me and the God in whom I believe; just as the religious philosophy of these others is between them and the God in whom they believe. And this is best this way. Were we to come out here discussing religion, we’d have too many differences from the outstart and we could never get together.“

—  Malcolm X American human rights activist 1925 - 1965

The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Detroit, Michigan (12 April 1964)
Kontext: Islam is my religion, but I believe my religion is my personal business. It governs my personal life, my personal morals. And my religious philosophy is personal between me and the God in whom I believe; just as the religious philosophy of these others is between them and the God in whom they believe. And this is best this way. Were we to come out here discussing religion, we’d have too many differences from the outstart and we could never get together. [... ] If we bring up religion, we’ll be in an argument, and the best way to keep away from arguments and differences, as I said earlier, put your religion at home in the closet. Keep it between you and your God. Because if it hasn’t done anything more for you than it has, you need to forget it anyway.

„It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.“

—  Warren G. Harding American politician, 29th president of the United States (in office from 1921 to 1923) 1865 - 1923

Relayed by Bishop William F. Anderson as a remark by a friend of Harding, in "Pictures Harding as Man of Prayer" (2 April 1922) New York Times
Attributed

„I was more influenced by Barças philosophy than by any other coach. They were four years of my life absolutely fundamental.“

—  José Mourinho Portuguese association football player and manager 1963

Chelsea FC, Doctorate Honoris Causa degree award (23 March 2009)

„They have fundamentally different problems than other people.“

—  Chris Murphy American politician 1973

On Washington politicians, "Chris Murphy: ‘Soul-Crushing’ Fundraising Is Bad For Congress" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/07/chris-murphy-fundraising_n_3232143.html, Huffington Post, 7 May 2013.

„When two-three different religions claim that only their own religions are true and all other religions are false, their religions are only ways to Heaven, conflicts can not be avoided. Thus, fundamentalism tries to abolish all other religions. This is called Bolshevism in religion. Only the path shown by the Hinduism can relieve the world form this meanness.“

—  Rabindranath Tagore Bengali polymath 1861 - 1941

R. Tagore, `Aatmaparichapa' in his book `Parichaya' http://hindusamhati.blogspot.com/2013/05/thoughts-of-rabindranath-tagore-on.html

„I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.“

—  Winston S. Churchill, buch The Story of the Malakand Field Force

Early career years (1898–1929)
Quelle: The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898), Chapter III.

„It's a racial stalemate we've been stuck in for years. And contrary to the claims of some of my critics, black and white, I have never been so naïve as to believe that we can get beyond our racial divisions in a single election cycle, or with a single candidate - particularly a candidacy as imperfect as my own.
But I have asserted a firm conviction - a conviction rooted in my faith in God and my faith in the American people - that working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds, and that in fact we have no choice. We have no choice if we are to continue on the path of a more perfect union.“

—  Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961

2008, A More Perfect Union (March 2008)

„Canada is not a melting-pot. Canada is an association of peoples who have, and cherish, great differences but who work together because they can respect themselves and each other.“

—  Vincent Massey Governor General of Canada 1887 - 1967

Address to the Rotary Club, St. John's, Newfoundland, August 22, 1955
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

„From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.“

—  John Henry Newman English cleric and cardinal 1801 - 1890

Apologia Pro Vita Sua [A defense of one's own life] (1864)

„In the interests of our people, and of other people in this part of the world, let's work together. Why do we have to exclude people because of their colour, whether they are white, brown, yellow or black? Let's accept that we are all a part of Africa, all part of the world. Let's all work together. And the more we can get people to accept that philosophy, the greater the hope for the whole world.“

—  Ian Smith Prime Minister of Rhodesia 1919 - 2007

Ian Smith - A Bit Of A Rebel, Ian Smith

„To create a Fiji where people of different ethnicities, religions and cultures can live and work together for the good of all, can differ without rancour, govern without violence and accept responsibility as reasonable people intent on serving the best interest of all.“

—  Epeli Ganilau Fijian politician 1951

Excerpts from a speech to the Fiji Institute of Accountants, 28 April 2005

„The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from another than from himself at different times.“

—  Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher 1623 - 1662

The Art of Persuasion

„Using the popular macroeconomic models of the time, Lucas and Sargent showed how replacing traditional assumptions about expectations formation by the assumption of rational expectations could fundamentally alter the results…. Most macroeconomists today use rational expectations as a working assumption in their models and analyses of policy. This is not because they believe that people always have rational expectations. Surely there are times when people, firms, or financial market participants lose sight of reality and become too optimistic or too pessimistic… But these are more the exception than the rule, and it is not clear that economists can say much about those times anyway. When thinking about the likely effects of a particular economic policy, the best assumption to make seems to be that financial markets, people, and firms will do the best they can to work out the implications of that policy. Designing a policy on the assumption that people will make systematic mistakes in responding to it is unwise.“

—  Olivier Blanchard French economist 1948

Quelle: Macroeconomics (7th Edition, 2017), Ch. 16 : Expectations, Output, and Policy

„In my larger work, the Mishnah Torah, I have contented myself with briefly stating the principles of our faith and its fundamental truths, together with such hints as approach a clear exposition. In this work, however, I address those who have studied philosophy and have acquired sound knowledge, and who while firm in religious matters are perplexed and bewildered on account of the ambiguous and figurative expressions employed in the holy writings.“

—  Maimónides, buch The Guide for the Perplexed

Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Introduction

„If we turn to the differences separating Communist, Fascist, and National Socialist regimes, we find that they can be accounted for by contrasting social, economic, and cultural condition in which the three had to operate. In other words, they resulted from tactical adaptation of the same philosophy of government to local circumstances, not from different philosophies.“

—  Richard Pipes American historian 1923 - 2018

Quelle: Russia Under The Bolshevik Regime (1994), p. 278

„Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.“

—  Bertrand Russell, buch Our Knowledge of the External World

Quelle: Our Knowledge of the External World

„Every minute everything is different everywhere. It is all flowing... The duty or beauty of a painting is that there is no reason to do it nor any reason not to. It can be done as a direct act or contact with the moment and that is the moment you are awake and moving. It all passes and is never true literally as the present again leaving more work to be done.“

—  Robert Rauschenberg American artist 1925 - 2008

Quote of Rauschenberg (1961), as cited in Introduction, Roberta Bernstein, from catalog 'The White and Black Paintings'
from a recording of a symposium in 1961, Larry Gagosian Gallery, New York, 1986
1960's

„People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.“

—  Allan Fromme American psychologist 1916 - 2003