Convinced Quotes - Page 7

• I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Roots, Culture, Liberation

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2008). “The Vorkosigan Companion”, p.13, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• I am convinced that the moment is coming when, with its message of eternal, universal values, it will come to the aid of our society. For in these words: "Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," lie those very moral principles that will enable us to survive even the most critical situations.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Lying, Principles, Our Society

  "Against the Grain : An Autobiography" by Boris Yeltsin, (p. 251), 1990.

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• A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.

  George Henry Lewes

  Men, Enthusiasm, Belief

  "The Principles of Success in Literature". The Fortnightly Review, Volume 1, www.gutenberg.org. 1865.

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• Early on in my life I comprehended that death is the most tragic event in our life. Events of early Monday July 14, 1958 [Coup in Iraq] had convinced me that hate is the most destructive force in our life.

  Ala Bashir

  Life, Monday, Hate

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• The main problem with pacifism is that it doesn’t work in all situations. The main problem with pacifists is that they’re convinced it does.

  Burt Prelutsky

  Doe, Problem, Pacifism

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• I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Philosophy, Believe

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.230, Princeton University Press

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• I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Laughter, Mankind, Regeneration

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.470, JHU Press

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• ... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation of their position. When they asked us to be silent on our question during the War, and labor for the emancipation of the slave, we did so, and gave five years to his emancipation and enfranchisement.... I was convinced, at the time, that it was the true policy. I am now equally sure that it was a blunder.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  War, Men, Years

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• When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced.

  Charles Simmons

  Heart, Understanding

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.236

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• Churchill is the very type of a corrupt journalist. There is not a worse prostitute in politics. He himself has written that it'sunimaginable what can be done in war with the help of lies. He's an utterly amoral repulsive creature. I'm convinced that he has his place of refuge ready beyond the Atlantic. He obviously won't seek sanctuary in Canada. In Canada he'd be beaten up. He'll go to his friends the Yankees. As soon as this damnable winter is over, we'll remedy all that.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Lying, Winter

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• But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Government, Long

  "Obama at War". "Frontline", www.pbs.org.

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• A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering his child's questions; but an adult who thinks these tales are only a bunch of lies had better not try telling them; he won't be able to related them in a way which would enrich the child's life.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Lying, Thinking

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales”, Knopf

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• The good enough parent, in addition to being convinced that whatever his child does, he does it because at that moment he is convinced this is the best he can do, will also ask himself: "What in the world would make me act as my child acts at this moment? And if I felt forced to act this way, what would make me feel better about it?

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Feel Better, Parent

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• The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the anti-bourgeois snobbery of people convinced of their right to dictate to the common man in the name of the common man.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, War, Men

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• People have little idea, by and large, of the investment world. They are convinced they have an advantage.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Money, Ideas, People

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• I've never been convinced that the sun would come up without me barking.

  John R. Erickson

  Sun, Come Up

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• It would be a nice way to finish my career by remembering that I batted cleanup in the game in which my team won the World Series. But I now am convinced that I can still help, and if the right situation presented itself, I would have to think seriously about it.

  Darren Daulton

  Team, Nice, Thinking

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• My neighbor's not even listening to me. He's all excited about some garden hose he bought at Brookstone. He's convinced it was designed by NASA. "Actually, it's got two nozzles, one for the hot and one for the..." Really? Is it long enough to go around both our necks and the chimney so we can tandem jump off of this? That's all I really care about you and your little garden hose.

  Bill Burr

  Funny, Garden, Two

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• I am sure all politicians will be convinced of the merits of this deal.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Merit, Politician

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• I am firmly convinced that the trend toward more fuel-efficient vehicles is not a fad. Gas prices will continue to rise in the medium to long term, because demand is growing considerably in China, India and other countries.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Country, Long, India

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There is however difference between the theology of liberation and traditional theology, the latter being based primarily On the Word of God made incarnate in the Holy Scripture Liberation theology is of course also inspired by the Word, but its representatives are convinced that God also speaks to us in everyday events and that, for example, information obtained through the mass media can be a special way in which God speaks to us.

  Ernesto Cardenal

  Media, Differences, Everyday

  Source: www.crisismagazine.com

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• I'm still convinced. We all fight for freedom, but the foundation of freedom is equality and justice. And we are all on the road.

  Evo Morales

  Fighting, Justice, Foundation

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• We see how capitalism is destroying Mother Earth. I remain convinced that the Earth can exist without man but man cannot live without the Earth.

  Evo Morales

  Mother, Men, Earth

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• I'm convinced that a person in my position must provide a positive example to people.

  Vladimir Putin

  People, Example, Position

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• A woman called Rose has written to me every day for the last 15 years. That's dedication. It's not quite fan mail, but a woman in Frome, Somerset, thought she was married to me. She was so convinced, it actually ended up in court, which was a drag. You can only claim that in a court of law once in your life.

  Tony Blackburn

  Dedication, Years, Law

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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