Quotes by Conviction I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them. Franklin D. Roosevelt library conviction democracy 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. Frederick C. Beiser conviction religious people I love opposition that has convictions. Frederick The Great opposition conviction Convictions are prisons. Friedrich Nietzsche conviction prison Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope. George Monbiot conviction voting arise I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice. George Mason conviction common justice You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction. George W. Crane conviction open-minded mind Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don't have conviction. George Soros scales increase conviction In the end, leaders are defined by the convictions they hold. George W. Bush conviction leader ends In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all. Gilbert K. Chesterton conviction racism people The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting. Gertrude Stein conviction luck literature Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust. George Washington conviction style may When we lock things away," he said with conviction, "we're really imprisoning ourselves. Gordon Korman locks conviction said He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him George Bernard Shaw conviction style power It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium. George Eliot well-known conviction mind I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. George Eliot conviction social writing Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction. Gregory Maguire conviction energy doubt There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness. Gilbert K. Chesterton conviction huge kind The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. Hannah Arendt conviction form capacity I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity. Gustave Flaubert vanity conviction literature «1234567891011»