#conviction

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#conviction #democracy #extraordinary #ordinary #ordinary people

People will judge you according to your own convictions. ↗

— Dexter Scott King

#convictions #judge #own #people #will

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#convictions #deprived #freedoms #never #people

The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history. ↗

— Viktor Yushchenko

#embedded #history #nation #our #pages

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#conviction #defend #israel #strategy #west

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#conviction #logic #technique #truth #which

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#assault #capitalism #children #comfortable #conviction

In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all. ↗

— Jon Meacham

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Conviction without experience makes for harshness. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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