Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The women who walk into Planned Parenthood clinics come from every background, every political persuasion. — Cecile Richards Copy Share Image
The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit… To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence. — David Wooster Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away. — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
A player will tell you anything to get you, but they won't do anything to keep you. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we… — Mahmoud Abbas Copy Share Image
For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The [nonprofit] sector is the natural home of nonmajoritarian impulses, movements and values. It comfortably harbors innovators, maverick movements, groups which feel… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
My neighbour, or my servant, or my child, has done me an injury, and it is just that he should suffer an… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Advertising is profoundly manipulative at its core. Its imagery strives to deprive us of realistic ideas about love, sex, beauty, health, money,… — Jennifer L. Pozner Copy Share Image
“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Persuasion comes in many forms," said Lord Vetinari. "No, I agree with Archchancellor Ridcully, sending Captain Carrot would be an excellent idea."… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The effect of speech upon the condition of the soul is comparable to the power of drugs over the nature of bodies.… — Gorgias Copy Share Image
Is there any media here? A couple? Excellent. I want to ask you, I don't know what persuasion you are, but would… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“[...]if you are hoping to damage opponents' mental health, go ahead and tell them how inferior or dim-witted or nasty they are.… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
Because, Cat, it’s the feminine persuasion that’s always the deadliest. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“the battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.” — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image