Convictions Quotes
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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
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Our time is a time of great discoveries and firm scientific convictions.
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No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.
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It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth.
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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 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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I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.
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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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The challenges in our lives are there to STRENGTHEN our CONVICTIONS. They are NOT there to run us over.
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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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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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Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.
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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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The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.
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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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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.
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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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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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No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
