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

The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?

The greatest challenge of Leadership maintaining personal conviction in a globalized world.

The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How could I explain to them that the terrorists had left, that the terrorists had worn Israeli uniforms, that the terrorists had been sent into Chatila by Israeli officers, that the victims of the terrorists were not Israelis but Palestinians and Lebanese?

The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

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.

The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

There are real solutions right now for us if we stand up with the courage of our convictions.

The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

There's one thing we need above everything else; it's something we don't talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin.

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

There should be just no end to what we can do when we operate with the courage of our convictions and we get out there in the street, in the voting booth, we assert our power and we take our democracy back.

There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about it, perhaps even some sort of cheating.

The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

The Turkish judiciary has a very strong nationalist tradition, which is gradually changing, but only gradually. And since there was a nationalist outcry against Orhan Pamuk's remarks about Turkey's need to confront its past, I'm not surprised that one public prosecutor in an Istanbul borough should have decided to act. I don't expect the proceedings to lead to a conviction. But in any case one mustn't generalize and say that's the way Turkey behaves; it's the way one nationalist public prosecutor behaves.

The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

To me, the difference between a good marriage and a great marriage is conviction.

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is often rejected before it is finally admitted.

Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.

Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions.

To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.

To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.

Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.

We cannot preserve philanthropic and charitable values if we detach them completely from our fundamental personal beliefs and convictions.

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.

We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty.

Whatever you say, say it with conviction

We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American.

What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?

We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor.

Whenever the conviction of God's Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is not instant there will come a metallic hardening and a corrupting of the guidance of God.

What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.

When a denomination begins to consider doctrine divisive, theology troublesome, and convictions inconvenient, consider that denomination on its way to a well-deserved death.

When it comes to business, I am a woman, and when it comes to relationships, I am a child. I just haven't figured out how to bring the same confidence and conviction I have in the boardroom to my romantic relationships.