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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

My political views have definitely changed over the years. Maybe a better way of saying it is that I have grown into my convictions; the values and ideas of radical feminism that I started to articulate in my late teens feel more internalized or "second nature.

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

No Legislature can really destroy a religious conviction, except by exterminating its holders. It is historically too late to do that, and we shall live to see the drowned Egyptians on the seashore even yet.

Now, no one expects us to agree on everything, whether in Juneau or in Washington. But we are expected to govern with integrity and goodwill and clear convictions and a servant's heart.

Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

Neither the intensity of your feelings nor the certainty of your convictions is any assurance that you are right.

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

No one nowadays talks about the absolute, not even people with firm and deep religious convictions. The whole Hegelian project has no resonance for us, as it once had for the Germans in the 1820s and the British and Americans around the 1880s.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam] was sincerity to the core. He believed in what he wrote, and that conviction conveyed itself to readers.

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

Our belief in God is not blind faith. Belief is having a firm conviction something is true, not hoping it's true.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions.

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.

Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form.

Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

Speak out tirelessly with conviction.

Spring's first conviction is a wealth beyond its whole experience.

Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.

Repetition of the same chant, the same incantations, the same affirmations leads to belief, and once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her and were her own, and she entertained the conviction that she had a right to them and they they concerned no one but herself.

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

The Cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never varied.

The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

The Day We Let Our Convictions Define Our Life Rather Than Our Insecurities, Our True Journey Begins.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.