Quotes of: Convicts Keyword

Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.

Norman Finkelstein

Our greatest challenge today...is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the conviction...

Kirk J. Schneider

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if ...

Charles Darwin

Acting on your convictions is the ultimate test of your faith in your convictions.

Murad S. Shah

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

Max Frisch

People don't follow words; they follow conviction and without conviction the words are meaningless.

Serendipidus

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

R. Lee Ermey

I'm a man of convictions. If you press me about how I feel about an issue, you're going to see my convictions.

Kirk Cameron

I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinking and convictions are in accord with their own political convictions.

Edith Rogers

Obviously a primary liberal conviction is that we should be tolerant of other peoples' convictions. But if we believe in something, we had better find ways to say so convincingly.

Tony Judt

Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything.

Vidya Balan

—very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions—? Rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions

Frammenti postumi 1887-1888

But thoughts don't care about truth and shit. They sit up in your mind and fuck with you whenever.

Pryor Convictions: and Other Life Sentences

There is no Christianity unless first there is repentance. And it is not just, “Well, I am guilty.” It is not just a conviction. It is a conviction plus a desire to turn away from those things.

Brian Richardson

Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction.

The Moonflower Vine

The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.

Nancy Pearcey

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.

John Grisham

If you do not have the courage & conviction to talk about yourself.. Who on Earth will ever listen to you or ever talk about you..NO ONE! Confidence has nothing to do with HUMILITY,it is pure CONVICTION!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

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 good...

Joseph P. Bradley

All the studies and all the research in the field of criminology affirm that prison education is the least expensive and most effective solution to overcrowding and strain on the budget caused by recevidism.

College for Convicts: The Case for Higher Education in American Prisons

Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great,...

Frank Abagnale