Conviction Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conviction Faith Offence Social
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Literary censorship should not be necessary within the parameters of the law because it's simply a reflection of prevailing social prejudices! Writing should challenge… — Jack Tar Copy Share Image
“This is the paradox of the power of literature: it seems that only when it is persecuted does it show its true powers, challenging… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Taking offence is now our national pastime and metaphors are merely the latest offensive weapon identified by social justice warriors as being so menacing… — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass… — George Will Copy Share Image
“As social concerns override literary ones, writers seem fated to eschew virtuosity and experimentation in favor of a bland but immediately accessible style. Writing… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
“its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out… — Mark O'Connell Copy Share Image
Personally, I see little distinction between an artistic mentality and criminality. You couldn't possibly create a compelling story without some wickedness or some fascination… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Once you pull the trigger, you've got to throw balls aggressively and with conviction. — Alex Smith Copy Share Image
I've been around in public life for a long time. I think people know what I stand for. They know that I have strong… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
“Desert are you, deluge are you, in a crowd of fakes, only truth is you.” — Abhijit Naskar 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 the justice,… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go on growing-in… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to… — T. Allen Lawson Copy Share Image
The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
