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241 Persuasion quotes by 190 unique authors
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I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership…
— Yitzhak Shamir
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I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
— Themistocles
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[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political society.…
— Ed Crane
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The attitude of Communists towards any person who has made mistakes in his work should be one of persuasion in order to help him change…
— Mao Zedong
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[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.
— Vincent de Paul
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.
— Albert Camus
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What has been the effect of coericion [sic]? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and errors…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It will not just be conservatives or liberals, Republicans or Democrats, people of faith or unbelievers that restore America. It will be individuals from all…
— Chuck Baldwin
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we…
— Plato
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Technology creates the context for persuasion, but content persuades. Technology helps get content to the right people at the right time. The content still has…
— Colleen Jones
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Persuasion occurs when trust and confidence meet belief, risk tolerance, and safety.
— Jeffrey Gitomer
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Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
— Horace
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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.
— Honore de Balzac
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Facts and credibility only support persuasion.
— Dan S Kennedy
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When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the…
— Haim Ginott
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If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
— Samuel Johnson
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To please people is a great step towards persuading them.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Too much zeal offends where indirection works.
— Euripides
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Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.
— John Milton
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Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
— Herodotus
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