Quotes About Conviction

The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true.

They think that if they had more belief they would pray more, so keep them lacking. Never let them realize that the opposite is true: If they prayed more, they would have more belief.

Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.

If i believe my truth is true and you believe your truth is true, what if my truth says yours is a lie.is it still true?

Faith, that's another word for ignorance, isn't it? I never understood how people could be so proud of believing in something with no proof at all. Like that's an achievement.

Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand.

Faith is believing beyond the power of reason, when they're all against you. To one who has faith, no explanation is possible. To one without faith, evidence is necessary.

The most coward person is the one who uses religion to win an argument.

sometimes we don't need to think to beleive

Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.

The American religion-so far as there is one anymore-seems to be doubt. Whoever believes the least wins, because he'll never be found wrong.

I have always found the hardest mind to change is one that is religious.

By the time I turned fifteen, Communism had become my religion.

Odds are just the people opinion. Respect your own opinion.

We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.

No, I don't believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to believe in.

It is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right.

A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.

When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief.

There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker.

I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.

Please do not mistake me for a twopenny villain. I do nothing without a purpose.