It is really - one of the things in it that I heard yesterday in his testimony that I thought was disturbing… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
“The Jefferson style – cultivate his elders, make himself pleasant to his contemporaries, and used his pen and his intellect to shape… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The peace and joy of the Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military forces… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment.… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion.… — John Stott Copy Share Image
A growing number of respectable scientists are defecting from the evolutionist camp…moreover, for the most part these "experts" have abandoned Darwinism, not… — Wolfgang Smith Copy Share Image
I am not a difficult man by any stretch, and I'm saying that with a full and honest inventory going on. I'm… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Screens provoke action instead of persuasion. Propaganda is less effective in a world of screens, because while misinformation travels as fast as… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
To square the records, however, it should be said that if the Calvinist does not rise as high, he usually stays up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If the Humanists wish to be champions of reason, they should consider the following: just as they would not admit mystics into… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Thought as such… is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Modern formulations are necessary even in defense of very ancient truths. Not because of any alleged anachronism in the old ideas –… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
“Therapy requires a collaborative working relationship in which both partners act on the basis of their implicit confidence in the value and… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“My third maxim was to endeavour always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
It [9/11] transcended the political and moved into the metaphysical. There was a kind of cosmic, demonic quality of mind at work… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If Bill O'Reilly is calling you a far-left critic, in my book, no matter what your political persuasion is, that's probably -… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
“When describing the University of Virginia: Here, We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The thing to do is to go on, in the same suave tone, from uttering a series of banalities to expressing a… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“Logical minds, accustomed to be convinced by a chain of somewhat close reasoning, cannot avoid having recourse to this mode of persuasion… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are self-styled "anarcho-capitalists" (not to be confused with anarchists of any persuasion), who want the state abolished as a regulator of… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
I wanted to be strong when I went back to Persuasion. Strong and beautiful and totally together. I dreamed of the day… — Susan Donovan Copy Share Image
“Its all about perspective, that is how you look at things. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether an experience, event, situation… — Stella Payton Copy Share Image
Terrorist groups and their extremist state sponsors cannot be fought with kid gloves and flowery words of persuasion. As the U.S. has… — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
While a defeat for Obamacare in the Court would be nice, the defeat of President Obama at the polls on November 6… — Anonymous 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
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