Conviction Quotes

Deep down in our nonviolent creed is the conviction that there are some things so dear, some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they're worth dying for.

As I have walked among the desperate, rejected and angry young men I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they asked - and rightly so - what about Vietnam?

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.

If, however, there is to be a war of nerves let us make sure our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions of our hearts.

Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.

To survive is to stay alive in the face of opposition. Even when they comin, gunnin I stand position.

I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?

My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.

Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.

My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.

That which does not kill me can only make me stronger. I don't see why everybody feel as though that they gotta tell me how to live my life.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

I'm gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they're gonna like. It doesn't really matter.

I've always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

Not 'I don't give a f-' to just be reckless and do whatever, but 'I don't give a f- what they say.' ... I know who I am and what I'm doing in my life and what I've accomplished and continue to accomplish as a performer, as a writer, as an artist, as a person, as a human being. I'm happy with the man I'm becoming.

I really don't believe in abortion. It's like killing a baby.

I'm not a fighter by nature, but, if I believe in something, I stand up for it.

It wasn't money or love that I was looking for. I had a heightened sense of awareness, was set in my ways, impractical and a visionary to boot. My mind was strong like a trap and I didn't need any guarantee of validity.