Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The one and only method of teaching men the true religion was established by Divine Providence for the whole world, and for… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some… — Henry L. Stimson Copy Share Image
One of the most helpful things I introduced (and of very considerable consequence to Canadians) was my ultimate success in persuading my… — Judy LaMarsh Copy Share Image
In short, my vision of a responsible free society is one in which we discourage evil, but do not prohibit it. We… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Obama has had two raging successes in his term: He has slashed unemployment by persuading millions to give up hope and leave… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that it is not really what it is and that the consequences… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius Copy Share Image
In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop. — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a matter of persuading people of particular ideas, but of inviting them to share in the greatness of Christ.… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is… — Edward John Carnell Copy Share Image
We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Freudian therapists do a lot of listening and very little persuading, and that was one of the reasons I eventually gave up… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be… — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I believe that if you have faith in your own abilities then in the end others will have faith in them too,… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
The basic paradox about sex is that it always seems to be offering more than it can deliver. A glimpse of a… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
