My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth not with ethics.

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

To rely upon conviction devotion and other excellent spiritual qualities that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Oh I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am my views my perspective things I love things I hate my convictions my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write.

And this President wakes up every morning looks out across America and is proud to announce 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.