Persuasion is not a science but an art
We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.
Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.
Your lips are my persuasion, your love will be my cure.
To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.
Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all means - by preaching, persuasion, contempt and ridicule.
When someone is not there all the time it gives us space to think about them. Your job in influence and persuasion is to get the other person to think about you or your product without you forcing yourself upon them or without you making them think about you.
What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do it by force. We do it by persuasion.
Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising.
My powers of persuasion are only as strong as the bullshit I have to back it up. - Charley Davidson
Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind.
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.
Violence is not the only means of persuasion.
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 importance. . . . Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged. . . . Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them.
Though I knew so far as Anarchism was concerned I was backing a lost cause, it didn't seem to matter as every other cause had won at some time but that of the people themselves. At least it threw so a light on any other political persuasion.
Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.
I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions.
With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic. A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly; she grows a second heart and a second brain, second eyes and second limbs, a complete set of second body parts as if for use as spares, and then, after almost a year, she expels that second screaming being out of her belly and into the world, alive. Bizarre, isn't it?
For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.
The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.