Barbara Marx Hubbard Quotes

Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving, creative, and wise, they are good beliefs. If they make us cruel, jealous, depressed and sick, they cannot be good beliefs.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

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• Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Bad
  • Boy
  • Misunderstood

• If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.

  

  Mahavira
  • Character
  • Want
  • Effort

• It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Why
  • Funny
  • Hate

• For those of you who thought F. W. Murnau's 'Nosferatu' was his greatest film, I have news for you: his 'Faust' blows it out of the water.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Water
  • Thought
  • Greatest

• My great uncle was in 'Dad's Army.' And I don't know if Americans will know that. It was a hugely popular show in England.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Great
  • Know
  • Dad

• I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Home

• The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Response
  • Generosity

• I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Comedy
  • Summer
  • Theater

• If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Death

• Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • God
  • Faith
  • Support

• Peace with justice means free enterprise that unleashes the talents and creativity that reside in each of us; in other models, direct economic growth from the top down or relies solely on the resources extracted from the earth. But we believe that real prosperity comes from our most precious resource - our people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • Real

• Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag

• In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Why
  • She

• When it comes to work, I have a lot of patience, but otherwise, I am quite impatient.

  

  Kratika Sengar
  • Work
  • Patience

• If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.

  

  Bill Nelson
  • Identity

• Economics is everywhere, and understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.

  

  Tyler Cowen
  • Life
  • Help
  • Understanding

• I couldn't live in L.A. and not be close to the beach, you know, that's like the whole thing. I don't understand people who don't live by the beach. Why would you not?

  

  Andrew Mayer Cohen
  • People
  • Live
  • Why

• I'm not thirsty. I'm not a pop star. I don't want to reign over all forever... I don't want to be famous! It makes me feel sick, the thought of being a famous person. It's just not me.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Star
  • Forever
  • Thought

• Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Religious
  • Strength
  • Weakness

• I love to shop at BCBG, because it's classy and elegant but a little bit sexy. It fits who I am in one store.

  

  Emeraude Toubia
  • Sexy
  • Classy

• Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.

  

  Maurice Strong
  • Believe
  • Environment

• Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving, creative, and wise, they are good beliefs. If they make us cruel, jealous, depressed and sick, they cannot be good beliefs.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Sick
  • Beliefs
  • Jealous