{"quotes":[{"text":"The greatest men stand on their values and pray on their knees.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["beliefs","christian","christianity","convictions","ethics","god","god-fearing","godly","integrity","leaders","leadership","morals","pray","prayer","praying","standing","supplication","values"],"id":388,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"In response to my father-in-law's view, I offered no opinion. He was not looking for my opinion. He had merely been spouting his belief, a conviction that would remain unchanged for all eternity.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["beliefs","convictions","opinions"],"id":33801,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight.","author":"Christine de Pizan","tags":["attacks","beliefs","clichés","convictions","dignity","double-standards","feminism","gender","hypocrisy","insults","men","misogyny","preconceptions","prejudice","repartee","self-esteem","self-importance","slander","stereotypes","wit","women"],"id":53673,"author_id":"Christine+de+Pizan"},{"text":"Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.","author":"Malcolm X","tags":["convictions","intelligence","knowledge","open-mindedness","truth"],"id":62930,"author_id":"Malcolm+X"},{"text":"If you ask a conservative for a statement of his political convictions, he may well say that he has none, and that the greatest heresy of modernity is precisely to see politics as a matter of convictions as though one could recuperate, at the level of political purpose, the consoling certainty which once was granted by religious faith. In another sense, however, conservatism does rest in a system of belief, and is opposed as much to the theory as to the practice of socialist and liberal politics.","author":"Roger Scruton","tags":["conservative","conservatives","convictions","liberalism","religion","socialism"],"id":79175,"author_id":"Roger+Scruton"},{"text":"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["convictions","existentialism","lies","truth"],"id":85326,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"Co-opted convictions will always betray you.","author":"Charles M. Blow","tags":["beliefs","betrayal","co-opting","convictions"],"id":91588,"author_id":"Charles+M.+Blow"},{"text":"Be in a close association with your creator whose is ever ready to direct your plans. Always ensure your convictions are divine and backed by a Godly approval.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["close","close-to-god","convictions","convinced","creator","food-for-thought","god","god-s-plan","god-s-plans","god-s-will","godly-approval","israelmore-ayivor","pray-to-god","prayer","relationship-with-god"],"id":128329,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed; whereas voting is the only thing the average person can do to force everyone to live how they would prefer. A simple vote is among the largest yet most acceptable forms of bigotry, and that is because people play the card only when they feel that in doing so it conveniences themselves.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","belief","bigotry","convenience","convictions","evangelists","hypocrisy","hypocrites","philosophers","philosophy","politics","pride","selfishness","teachings","theologians","voting"],"id":129032,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"I have the courage of my convictions.","author":"Brigitte Bardot","tags":["convictions "],"id":142882,"author_id":"Brigitte+Bardot"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":40,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}