Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Such displays of the Australian spirit engender pride, regardless of background, religion and political persuasion. They are unifying... This spirit of leadership… — Larissa Behrendt Copy Share Image
You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into. — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
It is well for us if we have learned to listen to the sweet persuasion of the Beatitudes, but there are crises… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Feminists who want to censor what they regard as harmful pornography have essentially the same motivation as other would-be censors: They want… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
When someone is not there all the time it gives us space to think about them. Your job in influence and persuasion… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The spiritual power in the gospel is denied when we augment or adjusting gospel into no gospel at all. When we doubt… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
We imagine what this country is, but quite clearly, this country is a mystery. I mean, one of the reasons I did… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I like the law. I like the part that's about reasoning, about persuasion, about telling stories, about trying to build structures that… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been… — Adoniram Judson Copy Share Image
A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The world has progressed to the point where it's most powerful force is public opinion. And I believe that in this world… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
... human free will implies God's prior decision not to tamper with the metaphysical base of that free will. It also implies… — Don Richardson Copy Share Image
We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion. — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
“It ain't that he's not interested in, like, persuasiveness, get me? He's interested in it. Like something in a jar.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
