Persuasion Quotes
241 quotes by 195 authors
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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
— Aristotle
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various…
— Aristotle
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
— Jane Austen
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Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
— William Bernbach
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Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
— Aesop
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I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people…
— George W. Bush
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In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.
— Tony Campolo
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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
— Thomas Carlyle
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After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled…
— Adoniram Judson
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According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe in God. Yet it is…
— John Baillie
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No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional shield deliberately planned…
— Hugo Black
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We must distinguish between those who depend on others, that is between those who to achieve their purposes can force the issue and those who…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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I have been Europe's last hope. She proved incapable of refashioning herself by means of voluntary reform. She showed herself impervious to charm and persuasion.…
— Adolf Hitler
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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing…
— Andre Gide
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With plants, persuasion is better than force.
— Elsa Bakalar
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Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of…
— William Penn
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Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this…
— William Blake
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
— Ayn Rand
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