African american Quote by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

— Powell Clayton

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

— John Steinbeck

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“...a person who thinks should not try to persuade others to his belief; that is what puts him on the road to a system;…

— Milan Kundera

“By dying for a conviction a man proves only that he is sincere, not that he is right.”

— Roland H. Bainton

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing should be taken too seriously

— Samuel Butler

I'm a man without conviction. I'm a man who doesn't know how to sell a contradiction. You come and go, you come and go.

— Culture Club

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he…

— Adam Weishaupt

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I'm a man without conviction. I'm a man who doesn't know.

— Culture Club

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

— Samuel Butler

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or…

— George H. Smith