The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own. — William Empson Copy Share Image
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Mainstream Jewish intellectuals became 'pro'-Israel after the June 1967 war when Israel became the U.S.A.' s strategic asset in the Middle East,… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The most active people in the country know different things, and because each one tends to hear mostly and deal mostly with… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
you cannot make a person believe anything unless that person has already had a conscious or unconscious vision of the same thing;… — Gwethalyn Graham Copy Share Image
Che Guevara taught us we could dare to have confidence in ourselves, confidence in our abilities. He instilled in us the conviction… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Spring's first conviction is a wealth beyond its whole experience. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Whereas much of what we know from ancient history is derived from one or two sources, we have no fewer than nine… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for… — Earl Browder Copy Share Image
Look at all the misery in the Middle East, for example. All these countries have Islam in common, and far too few… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
In the US in recent years, around a third of all open management positions have gone to women. My research over the… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To… — Claudio Hummes Copy Share Image
Remaining loyal to honest conviction reflects ones integrity & to act in accordance with ones deepest values from within. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Stop waiting for others to tell you what you can do. Start putting faith into your own strengths and talents. Instead of… — Jane Powell Copy Share Image
I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the best-paying platforms in the… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
Have faith in your passion and conviction, identify your dreams and have courage to pursue them — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
