My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Criminal law has to do with relations between the misbehaving individual and his government...Criminal law establishes rules of conduct; their breach, if… — Lawrence M. Friedman Copy Share Image
There is a hard core of people in the United States who will not be moved, whatever facts you present, from their… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Leadership is built on inspirations. Inspiration does both the theoretical and the practical job. By inspiration, people are not only informed to… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
We came together [with King Hussein of Jordan] because of a shared sense of idealism, of the value of service to a… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
When you have a strong conviction, you have a duty not to tell people what they want. At least represent yourself and… — Eddie Huang Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The world cries for men who are strong--strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer. I pray that you will… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
If condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths [from AIDS], they should be made more widely available. I know that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The most noticeable weakness of Congressmen is their timidity. They fear the use to be made of their "record." They are afraid… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Unhappiness, I saw then, comes to each of us because we think ourselves at the center of the world, because we have… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace. Many, because… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good deal of editing a manuscript looks like mechanical work, as if anyone with time on their hands and a magnifying… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
Propaganda's content increasingly resembles information. It has even clearly been proved that a violent, excessive, shock-provoking propaganda texts leads ultimately to less… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not… — William Osler Copy Share Image
All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
If I go out of public life with one feeling, with one conviction, it is this : a deep regret for many… — Henri Bourassa Copy Share Image
The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The seems… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution.… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That… — Bernardine Dohrn Copy Share Image
If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore… — Gary McCord Copy Share Image
The prosecution has an ethical duty to ensure not just that they get a conviction when the defendant is guilty, but also… — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
He who has not yet attained divine knowledge energized by love is proud of his spiritual progress. But he who has been… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape… — Adam Pally Copy Share Image
If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled only by solar energy, let no one claim that… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, ‘Are they right?’ And if they are, you need to adapt… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Thanks to his complex convictions, made strong with the forces of animus and anima, the alchemist believes he is seizing the soul… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
“I don't purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all i do is to rest on… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
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