Convictions Quotes
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Our time is a time of great discoveries and firm scientific convictions.
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No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even one and the same person won't always maintain the same views and judgments: earlier convictions must give way to later ones.
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Tolerance can be exercised only by those who have well-grounded convictions (although it will not always be exercised even by them). For such people tolerance is an act of self-abnegation; although they are convinced that those who differ from them must be wrong, they nevertheless will protect their rights.
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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.
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People with felony convictions - pending felony convictions should not be able to buy gun, but they should be able to stay in sanctuary cities, if they're illegal, if they cross the border.
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No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.
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I think that the American people are grappling with this, but will respect leadership and will be willing to fight for a candidate's convictions.
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Religions, convictions, philosophies may differ – widely and bitterly; but never, in my belief, should such differences be allowed to assume the personal aspect. Disassociation from people for such reasons is inexcusable; it is representative of bigotry and intolerance.
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In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state.
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Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow up all traces of human volition and dignity. The conclusion is based on conservative moral convictions that reason can't shake.
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The challenges in our lives are there to STRENGTHEN our CONVICTIONS. They are NOT there to run us over.
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Perhaps the most significant event in the evolution of the liberated mind arrives with the realization that most people, even in their deepest convictions, are blind to most truths.
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To make sure our convictions, views, and assumptions about our Creator stay based on biblical truth and not on popular consensus, we must continually check what we believe against the Scriptures.
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Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.
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He was a convinced but hardworked rationalist, always hard at it re-convincing himself of his convictions.
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I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.
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No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
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My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.
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I don't think that my particular religious convictions should be held against me in this campaign any more than the Prime Minister's lack of convictions should be held against her.
