Conviction Quotes - Page 19

• Ah, snug lie those that slumber Beneath Conviction's roof. Their floors are sturdy lumber, Their windows weatherproof. But I sleep cold forever And cold sleep all my kind, For I was born to shiver In the draft from an open mind.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Lying, Sleep, Forever

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• The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or not he does so he is responsible for them.

  Stephen Spender

  Civilization, Events, Doe

  Stephen Spender (1966). “World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender”, p.285, Univ of California Press

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• I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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• We've got to go to the people with bold ideas and candidates of conviction - we've got to be hotter than high school love.

  Jim Hightower

  School, Ideas, People

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• The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

  Max Weber

  Responsibility, Opposites, Ethics

  Max Weber, Peter Lassman, Ronald Speirs (1994). “Weber: Political Writings”, p.368, Cambridge University Press

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• I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that any problem that can be defined is capable of being resolved. Out of this has come my conviction that no person knows enough to be a pessimist.

  Norman Cousins

  Despair, Bombs, Next

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• Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of the misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves-their convictions and their aspirations-every day. There is nothing noble about it. It takes far more courage to fight for your values than to relinquish them.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Fighting, People, Desire

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs.

  William Morris Hunt

  Doubters, Painting, Painter

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• Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.

  Barry Sanders

  Sports, Feelings, Lasts

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• My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.

  Bertrand Russell

  Agreement, People, Agree

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• If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

  Alex Chilton

  Song, Writing, Expression

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• To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Pride, Self, Decision

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• Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Children, Passion, Married

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• My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.

  Jose Maria Aznar

  Israel, West, Strategy

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• At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.

  Sal Albanese

  Smart, People, Independence

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• Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.

  Joni Mitchell

  Passion, Reality, Thinking

  Joni Mitchell (2013). “Joni Mitchell Complete So Far: Guitar Sheet Music Songbook Collection”, p.410, Alfred Music

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• [Microscopic] evidence cannot be presented ad populum. What is seen with the microscope depends not only upon the instrument and the rock-section, but also upon the brain behind the eye of the observer. Each of us looks at a section with the accumulated experience of his past study. Hence the veteran cannot make the novice see with his eyes; so that what carries conviction to the one may make no appeal to the other. This fact does not always seem to be sufficiently recognized by geologists at large.

  Thomas George Bonney

  Eye, Science, Past

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• And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything; that only a fool can become something. Yes, sir, an intelligent nineteenth-century man must be, is morally bound to be, an essentially characterless creature; and a man of character, a man of action - an essentially limited creature. This is my conviction at the age of forty. I am forty now, and forty years - why, it is all of a lifetime, it is the deepest of old age. Living past forty is indecent, vulgar, immoral!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Character, Men

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• What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction.

  Dee Hock

  Organization, Important, Purpose

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• In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Class, Great American, Nations

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• Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.

  Dave Obey

  Dollars, Bank Accounts, Our Family

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• We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be stampeded into giving it publicity...The less discussion there is concerning it the more sales resistance will be created. We therefore appeal to you to refrain from comment on this book...It is our conviction that a general compliance with this request will sound the warning to other publishing houses against engaging in this type of venture. (Signed) Richard E. Gutstadt, Director.

  Madison Grant

  Book, Believe, Publishing House

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• I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.

  David Petraeus

  Politician, Absolutes

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 15, 2010.

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• Venezuelans have a deep democratic conviction. If the government hotheads ventured out to stir violence they would encounter the armed forces. I don't believe the armed forces respond to a political party.

  Henrique Capriles Radonski

  Party, Believe, Government

  "Hugo Chávez rival pledges seismic shift in foreign policy" by Jonathan Watts, Virginia Lopez, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2012.

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• Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.

  Guy Verhofstadt

  Brother, Order, Suffering

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