#conviction

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering? ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#convictions #suffering #worth

Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions. ↗

— Evan Sayet

#bill #convictions #democratic #democratic party #democrats

This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character. ↗

— James Stockdale

#being #big #big deal #character #convictions

Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own ↗

— Rollo May

#existentialism #morality #existentialism

Knowledge & understanding mixed with ones convictions of 'experience' is hardly impositional". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#experience-inspiration #knowledge #knowledge-teaching #knowledge-wisdom #r-alan-woods

I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly. ↗

— Barbara Dana

#disobedience #obedience #public-opinion #death

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail. ↗

— Owen Arthur

#cause #conviction #fail #fortified #forward

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction. ↗

— Alex Chilton

#anything #coming #conviction #decent #done

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time. ↗

— Arthur Cohn

#among #conviction #directors #figure #great

I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#believed #convictions #defended #i #truth