Quotes About Conviction

It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.

As humans, we're so easily persuaded. We join this cause or that cause, and suddenly the other thing is wrong.

I think people don't want to be persuaded. And people don't even like to do the persuading.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

You can't show up at a church every 4 October and say, 'Vote for me,' and call that persuasion.

I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.

I'm probably more persuasive than the next person if I want to be, but do I want to be? In my head, I just don't go there.

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

It is a truly powerful phenomenon when a brand makes a stand for what it believes in.

I have a lot of confidence in myself and Philadelphia has a lot of confidence in me.

I couldn't say no to A. Philip Randolph and no to Martin Luther King, Jr. These two men, I loved them, I admired them, and they were my heroes.

The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives.

You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.

Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

I don't pick up fights casually. I fight for what is right.

Faith is never identical with piety.

President Sadat of Egypt made a historic breakthrough in 1977 when he put an end to war and convinced both Egyptians and Israelis that he was ready to make peace. He broke down the walls of suspicion and prejudice.

If you didn't want to believe in me, that's OK, because I'll make a believer out of you.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what's right.

When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.

I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.