Quotes About Conviction

Sólo de causas perdidas se puede ser partidario irrestricto.

Das Individuum, das eine authentische Berufung hat, ist reaktionär, welcher Art die Überzeugungen auch seien, die es hegt. Demokrat ist, wer erwartet, daß die Außenwelt ihm Ziele setzt.

Being reactionary is understanding that it is not possible to demonstrate or convince, only to invite.

Toda sociedade que se crê senhora de sua história, que se sente segura de seus propósitos, convicta da excelência de seus princípios e persuadida de possuir a verdade, tiraniza e oprime.

Though he knows he cannot win, the reactionary has no desire to lie.

Die Wahrheit des Menschen ist nichts weiter als eine aufrichtige Überzeugung. Wahrheit ist, was wir als Wahrheit beurteilen, nachdem wir die Gründe erwogen, die Argumente bedacht und unsere Überzeugung auf das breiteste Fundament der Aufrichtigkeit und Ehrlichkeit gestellt haben. Die Wahrheit ist eine Tugend - wie die Blüte, die manchen harten und knorrigen moralischen Wurzeln entstammt. Vielleicht sollte man in der Logik lediglich ein Kapitel der Ethik sehen.

The cause of the modern disease is the conviction that man can cure himself.

At times truth may not seem probable.

Le vrai peut quelquefois n'être pas vraisemblable. (At times truth may not seem probable)

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

Don't mistake passion and purpose for demagoguery. I choose emotion over apathy. Being completely rational is overrated.

I have to adhere to the truth," I said.

Let there be no hesitations, no regrets, no compromises - they are at once cowardly and vain.

He was already beginning, as always happens at a respectable age, to take a firm stand for Raphael and the old masters––not because he was fully convinced of their lofty merit, but so as to shove them in the faces of young artists.

However foolish be a madman's words, they may yet prove sufficient to sow doubt in the minds of saner individuals.

Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. All else is a waste of energy and time.

In 1984, Fred Korematsu went back to federal court, seeking to have his conviction voided retroactively on the theory that the government had withheld crucial facts from the judiciary. The court agreed with him. The Department of Justice and the Army, it found, had distorted the record to make it appear that there was a legitimate security concern.113 A few years later, Congress granted reparations of twenty thousand dollars to each Japanese-American who had been interned.

The first adopters would be the ones who'd been preaching his philosophy for years. And right behind them would be the people who had been searching their whole lives for someone to say out loud what they'd always felt in their hearts. And once you had those two groups, the curious and the undecided would follow in droves.

Everybody has a theory, Judge Nadir has come to believe. A conviction, dogged and tenacious, which they refuse to surrender. This is the American way.

As with everything else about God, where you come down on the issue revolves around faith.

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

Thank you, but I take no joy in my wedding." "Of course you don't, but still, you must act the part. I often take no joy in my spinsterhood; I have no babes to fill my arms, and yet by acting the part of it, I convince myself that I am not lonely. And sometimes it works.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

The older I get," observed Mr. van Koppen, "the more I realize that everything depends upon what a man postulates. The rest is plain sailing.