Persuasion Quotes · Page 5

People are always selling the idea that they have a magic bullet of persuasion. You won't get poor by shorting such promises.

— Dominic Cummings

The women who walk into Planned Parenthood clinics come from every background, every political persuasion.

— Cecile Richards

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

— Eric Hoffer

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

I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence.

— David Wooster

We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

— Oscar Wilde

In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through…

— Tony Campolo

I loved Thirteen and I loved Pretty Persuasion, and was always just so blown away by her [Rachel Evan Wood]. It was…

— Ellen Page

'Powers of Persuasion: The Story of British Advertising' by Winston Fletcher - the impression you get from reading this book, which covers…

— Justin Cartwright

Persuasion has become a kind of force. The more the advertiser knows about what consumers want, and the more desires the product…

— Virginia Postrel

For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation,…

— Seamus Heaney

Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass…

— Jonathan Kozol

All of which raises the question – your task, burden, privilege, call it what you like – a question which men and…

— Ron Currie Jr

“The obvious danger for most corporate storytellers is that they see themselves as needing to cast spells of persuasion and enchantment with…

— Calvin Niles

Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain…

— Julian Baggini

The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what you're saying, and…

— William Bernbach

“... there is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only…

— Plato

“What does it mean to be an advocate?
In its broadest sense, advocacy means “any public action to support and recommend a cause,…

— John Capecci and Timothy Cage

The more aggressive our ideologies become, the more aggressive our discourse whether it's in the United States, from Washington D.C., or whether…

— Karen Armstrong

All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions…

— Charles Brockden Brown

God has given us a revelation in regard to celestial marriage. I did not make it. He has told us certain things…

— John Taylor

The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they…

— Herodotus

Pascal makes no attempt in this most famous argument to show that his Roman Catholicism is true or probably true. The reasons…

— Antony Flew

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

— Aristotle

Let us reject the spirit of making proselytes to particular creeds by any other means than persuasion.

— Noah Webster

Baby you should bring your best friend, then you should persuade her to let me get some sex in. Don't get offended,…

— Drake

One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition.

— William Wordsworth

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

— Laurence Olivier

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

— Jane Austen

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

— Joseph Conrad

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

— Honore de Balzac

It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and…

— Nicholas Boothman

There is arguably something wrong with a method of persuasion that cannot pass the test of publicity.

— Randal Marlin

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

— Terence

The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.

— Harry Allen Overstreet

My persuasion can build a nation. Endless power, our love we can devour. You'll do anything for me.

— Beyonce

No matter how smart you are you can never convince someone stupid that they are stupid.

— Anonymous

It's hard to know what is the right decision when we are full of temptation but if we have God in our…

— Mariane Corbito