“It’s amazing, the lies you can tell yourself. Even more amazing, the lies you can believe when you’re desperate enough.” — Cat Clarke Copy Share Image
People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Elegant persuasion is when the other person thought it was their idea. — Marshall Sylver 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
Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, he would now agree that you should sometimes let people persude you not to do things.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise… — John Key Copy Share Image
Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“The obvious danger for most corporate storytellers is that they see themselves as needing to cast spells of persuasion and enchantment with… — Calvin Niles 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
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
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
Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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
What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men...… — Frank Herbert 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
Usually it's just material that resonates with me and I never know exactly what that's gonna be. And there's obviously a certain… — Michael Landon, Jr Copy Share Image
It has taken a lot of persuasion for me to take part in an official documentary about 'Only Fools and Horses.' But,… — David Jason Copy Share Image
The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“When we lead by persuasion rather than command, patience is essential. Leaders rightly cultivate the art of persuasion that allows maximum individual… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and… — John Lachs Copy Share Image
“When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old… — Donald T. Phillips Copy Share Image
There are a lot of great technicians in advertising. And unfortunately they talk the best game. They know all the rules. They… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“When the law regulates behavior it plays an indirect part in molding public sentiment. The enforcement of the law is itself a… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
![“[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.” quote by Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/666/plato-103_art_m-ere-knowledge-of-the-truth-will-not-gi_1452484.jpg)
![“[...]if you are hoping to damage opponents' mental health, go ahead and tell them how inferior or dim-witted or nasty they are. But even if you are certifiably right on every point, you should not think for a minute that you will ever be able to persuade them. Name-calling will make you an enemy…” quote by Steven D. Levitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4e9/steven-d-levitt-5284_first-place_if-you-are-hoping-to-damage-opponents-me_193482.jpg)
![“What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth… [Instead] reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4a4/thomas-jefferson-43_earth_what-has-been-the-effect-of-coercion-to_238945.jpg)
