Quotes About Conviction

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.42

I'll be damned if I apologize for the choices I've made. They were hard decisions, but I had good reasons for making them.

Steele knew Breezy wasn't going to be won over easily, but as far as he was concerned, there was no other choice. He 'had' to win her over for his own self-preservation.

The cell wanted to overthrow the government and to do that, they were hurting their own people. Draden had never seen the logic in that, how could they convince themselves that what they were doing was justified because they believed in the endgame.

You do not understand the danger you are in. You must get to me. Shea might not fully comprehend, but she could feel his conviction, his fear for her, and she shivered, remembering the strength in the stranger's grasp, his hiss of deadly promise. Don't worry, I'll come right away. Go to sleep now, Jacques. This is draining for you. Shea. There was a moment of silence, of longing. Come back to me. If you believe nothing else I have told you, believe I need you.

You still have not confided to me on what you are basing your theory that a human woman can produce a female child in good health." He needed to know. He needed to believe as much as Gregori did. This time Gregori's silver eyes warmed into mercury, a self-mocking humor that wasn't real shimmering for a brief moment. "Need. Pure need, my old friend.

Make a decision, trust yourself and stick with it.

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.

Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defenders denies that she holds, or at least has held and not yet repudiated) that the end of days and the Second Coming will occur in her lifetime. This completes the already strong case for allowing her to pass the rest of her natural life span as a private citizen.

Did I ever think I might have been wrong? Yes, sometimes and briefly. But never because of the supposed majority against me.

I am so made that I cannot believe.

Divine permission, given to people who think they have god on their side, enables actions that a morally normal unbeliever would not contemplate.

this is what I have been telling writing classes for years. You must feel not that you want to but that you have to.

Thus , dear reader, if you have come this far and found your own faith undermined—as I hope—I am willing to say that to some extent I know what you are going through. There are days when I miss my own convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less radical, and you will feel better too, I guarantee, once you leave hold of the doctrinaire and allow your chainless mind to do its own thinking.

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

My challenge: Name an ethical statement or action, made or performed by a person of faith, that could not have been made or performed by a nonbeliever.

A consciousness of rectitude can be a terrible thing, and in those days I didn't just think that I was right: I thought that "we" (our group of International Socialists in particular) were being damn well proved right. If you have never yourself had the experience of feeling that you are yoked to the great steam engine of history, then allow me to inform you that the conviction is a very intoxicating one.

Si me convierto será porque es preferible que muera un creyente a que lo haga un ateo.

If you have ever argued with a religious devotee, for example, you will have noticed that his self-esteem and pride are involved in the dispute and that you are asking him to give up something more than a point in argument.

Virtuous behavior by a believer is no proof at all of - indeed is not even an argument for - the truth of his belief.

Christopher Hitchens

Allegiance is a powerful force in human affairs; it will not do to treat someone as a mental serf if he is convinced that his thralldom is honorable and voluntary. From