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Human communication, 'as the saying goes, is a clash of symbols' it covers a multitude of signs. But it is more than media and messages,… — Ashley Montagu
To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at… — David Whyte
The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedne ss. — Terry Pratchett
We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own. — John Owen
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend. — Abraham Lincoln
Persuasion is better than force. — Aesop
In 1996, the late, great New York Times columnist William Safire published a column, 'Blizzard of lies,' in which he laid out a series of… — Marc Thiessen
The [nonprofit] sector is the natural home of nonmajoritarian impulses, movements and values. It comfortably harbors innovators, maverick movements, groups which feel they must fight… — John W. Gardner
Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical… — Edward H. Levi
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is… — John Milton
We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international… — Mahmoud Abbas
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns… — Aeschylus
Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances. — Richard Mentor Johnson
No advocate of reason can claim the right to force his ideas on others. No advocate of the free mind can claim the right to… — Ayn Rand
The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power,… — John Stott
Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect. — Jim Rohn
What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit. — John Stott
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion. — Alfred Nobel
We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion. — Ron Paul
In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first… — Thomas Jefferson
It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients. — Aristotle
I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about… — Gorgias
Is there any media here? A couple? Excellent. I want to ask you, I don't know what persuasion you are, but would you like to… — Matt Shea
In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified… — Robert H. Jackson
The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races, of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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