Conviction
In law, a conviction is the verdict that results when a court of law finds a defendant guilty of a crime.
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Famous quotes containing the word conviction:
“And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It agitates and tears him, and perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men’s existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)