Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.
We ought to have the courage of our convictions and confidence in our own ingenuity. After all, that’s what America is all about. Either that, or learn Mandarin.
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service, in shared moral convictions about our nation stemming from a common worldview.
My responsibility is to speak out on my own convictions.
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I’ve learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.
I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth.
If you work with convictions, people have got to listen to you.
Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
I don’t need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.
I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
When we first started, I didn’t know there was Christian rock or Christian music. I just thought we were a rock band that stuck to our convictions… Like every other hardcore band out there sang or screamed what they thought, we did the same thing.
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
I would never impose my own personal convictions upon the law.
A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.
Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.
What is important is that one utilizes one’s intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one’s convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.
The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up.
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.
If you press me about how I feel about an issue, you’re going to see my convictions.
We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you’re running on a ticket, you’re running with a team.
Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.
It’s an unfortunate fact that in the male black population, a very significant percentage of them, more so than whites or other minority candidates, because of convictions, prison records, are never going to be hired by a police department. That’s a reality. That’s not a byproduct of stop-and-frisk.
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
I think the reason composers aren’t valued is because many act as servants rather than music directors. Instead of taking a stand based on their convictions, they sway to the opinions of others.
The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
Principles, convictions and motives are neither sold nor bargained for!
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
I don’t consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs.
I don’t feel comfortable with the glorification of violence. But, as an actor who has had long periods of unemployment, you have to be lenient with your convictions.
My libertarian beliefs have not always served me well. Like most people who hold strong ideological convictions, I find that, too often, my beliefs trump the scientific facts.
Producers should have the courage of their convictions. See your project through to its fruition. Seek help and be generous enough to take on collaborators and not be territorial as you’re learning.
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
When you put fear aside and follow your convictions, you get to try and achieve so many more things.
Sometimes love is stronger than a man’s convictions.
As to the war, while it is always thought rash to have any strong military convictions, I have always believed that if they would go straight to Sebastopol early in the season they would take it with little difficulty.
Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.
I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they’ve changed overnight.
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
My parents’ convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of ’90s grunge – if you got it now, you would think it was the ‘Singles’ soundtrack.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.
I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can’t crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
I definitely have not had a linear path. I have had more of a path where I’ve meandered with a sense of purpose. Really, what that means is it’s about being true to your convictions and your passions but also leaving yourself open to opportunities when they come along.
When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm.
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.
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.
Our political differences, no matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
I have convictions: once an idea’s in my head, it’s very hard to get it out.
I feel like my convictions and my passions come from my very personal experience and the life that I’ve led. I feel the very naturally tendency to stand up for and use my voice for the things that I know about and the things that I feel passionate about.
Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
It’s easy to talk a good game in an echo chamber, it’s easy to witness to people who think exactly the same way you do, but to test your convictions by going outside your comfort zone is where the ideological battle needs to go.
While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker.
Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state – that devouring leviathan – will soon swallow up all traces of human volition and dignity. The conclusion is based on conservative moral convictions that reason can’t shake.
