I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become totalitarian without a centralized national police.
You can't take yourself too seriously. But always have conviction.
Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.
[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.
I would. . . establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of a higher mental cultivation; that the study of Chemistry is profitable, not only inasmuch as it promotes the material interests of mankind, but also because it furnishes us with insight into those wonders of creation which immediately surround us, and with which our existence, life, and development, are most closely connected.
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
An indictment is not a conviction.
One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.
It is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.
Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.
Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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.
My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.
. . . my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than 'taking authority for truth. '
Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction.
One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren't always right.
I am able to make a contribution. . . Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.
Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.
Whereas much of what we know from ancient history is derived from one or two sources, we have no fewer than nine ancient sources, inside and outside the New Testament, corroborating the disciples' conviction that they encountered the resurrected Jesus. That's an avalanche of data.
Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.