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Would you not say that peace is the greatest desire of true soldiers? Do we not have the most to lose from war? And businesses, most of them except military and oil ones, most of them have a vested interest in peace and prosperity. You cannot sell a house to a war refugee living in a tent, can you? Really hard tto sell an iPhone to a shattered victim. Businesses and corporatoons run this country. So yuou have to approach them with logic. Emotional appeals to the hippies of this world will not change minds. Stick to logic. - Shane Gibson, candidate for Governor, THE PLATOS ASCENSION BRIEF.

Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction.

You are entitled to your opinion but you are not entitled to dictate mine.

You are wrong. She defied us the moment she rejected our verdict and opposed her sentence. The laws she undermined are the ones that preserve our order, bring our children into this world, rear them, and protect them up to their deaths. Regardless of how she may have deemed her sentence, refusing the verdict was a crime on its own. The worst crime. What would happen to our society and the peace we value so dearly if actions like hers were left unpunished?

You cannot sculpt a piece into a Player. A Player must mold himself out of fortitude and conviction.

You must be more convinced and dedicated to the integrity of the word of God which is what is right.

You must be more convinced and dedicated to the integrity of the truth.

You need energy and purpose to become the person you’re destined to be.

You need fire, conviction, to write. You can't write out of indifference.

A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.

Your true conviction is tested not when everything goes your way but rather when things go wrong...

Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated-thrown aside-a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.

A conviction is in the nature of a verdict and judgment, and therefore it must be precise and certain.

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.

Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.

Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render.

And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.

A mental picturing of that which we want, with the complete acceptance and the conviction that it is ours now, will bring it quickly.

and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.

And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction.

Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.

An indictment is not a conviction.

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions.

But it is my total conviction that all the trappings of good leadership are generic and widely applicable whether you are standing in a khaki queue with your mess tins or on an automobile production line.

A person without conviction is a weak, jellyfish type of individual who mindlessly follows the crowd.

Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?

Be true to your own highest convictions.

Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.

Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction--this is the New Testament method, and the true one.

As resolute as I feel about my convictions, if I'm wrong, I'm man enough to say I'm wrong, because I find it a rare occasion anyway.

Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.

Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions.

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.

Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.

Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.

Conviction of sin draws me away from myself and toward GodSelf-condemnation, on the other hand, draws me down into myself and away from God.

Communicate your passion clearly, concisely and with genuine conviction.

Confidence is something you acquire in yourself by believing in self ability with courage and conviction.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.

Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.