Conviction Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton Download Open image “The people who are most bigoted are those who have no conviction at all.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conviction Faith Inspirational People Racism
In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Bigoted people are just scholars who lack any sort of legitimate credentials to answer why they're bigoted. — Doctavius Copy Share Image
Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
True bigotry is when you can't see the facts because your own beliefs are blocking the way. — Lawrence D Elliott Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When someone is saying something bigoted, try and remember that that person actually just doesn't understand, and that it comes from a level of… — Courtney Act Copy Share Image
Bigotry and prejudice are not unique to groups that have held privilege, and ascribing views to entire groups rather than to specific individuals is… — Kemi Badenoch Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
When you fight to give your family bread, that's not passion anymore: that's conviction. — Yoel Romero 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
We need the conviction to be able to think for ourselves and to take action outof our own sense of responsibility. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image