Credible Quotes

• To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

  Testimony before a Congressional Committee, pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org. May 1963.

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• At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.

  Cliff Stearns

  Goal, Safety, Privacy

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• Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

  John F. Kennedy

  Vietnam, Vietnam War, Problem

  1961 Attributed remark to journalist James Reston, following Kennedy's meeting with Khrushchev, Jun.

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• All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Philosophy, Medicine

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.278, Modern Library

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• Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Political, Language, Propaganda

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• Nor is it credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it.

  Pope Paul III

  Understanding, Desire, Littles

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• The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

  Mark Twain

  Reality, Differences, Needs

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• There is a danger when we give young people only a catalog of dos and don'ts. In these young minds, the gospel is not intellectually credible.

  Ravi Zacharias

  People, Giving, Mind

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

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• When we're young, we like happy endings. When we're a little older, we think happy endings are unrealistic and so we prefer bad but credible endings. When we're older still, we realize happy endings aren't so bad after all.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Littles, Happy Endings

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• Healing requires a legitimated, credible and culturally appropriate system.

  Mildred Blaxter

  Healing, Appropriate

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• We also know that the various faith-based institutions provide about 50 per cent of the health and education services in the poor communities; we also know that they have a large constituency including women and youth; they have outreach and networks and they are credible to their people. If we want to achieve the Millennium Development Foals by scaling up the responses of all the communities, do we ignore this large investment in people? Or do we engage in dialogue and in action?

  Thoraya Obaid

  People, Community, Foals

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• Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

  John P. Kotter

  Communication, Heart, Listening To Others

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• Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.

  W. H. Auden

  Song, Clever, Stupid

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• If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Military, Chance, Threat

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• I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era.

  Jay-Z

  Moving, Thinking, Hip Hop

  "Jay-Z Named President of Def Jam Records". www.foxnews.com. December 09, 2004.

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• Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

  John le Carre

  Fiction, Knows, Fiction Writers

  "Master of the Secret World: John le Carré on Deception, Storytelling and American Hubris" by Andrew Ross, www.salon.com. October 21, 1996.

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• The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing th orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work.

  Edward Said

  Fire, Islam, Experts

  Edward W. Said (2014). “Orientalism”, p.283, Vintage

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• If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome?

  P. D. James

  Pride, Overcoming, Novelists

  FaceBook post by P.D. James from Mar 02, 2013

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• As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural phenomena; but it needs to be dealt with skeptically as a credible system of thought. Some feng-shui prescriptions can certainly lead to desirable results.

  Martin Filler

  Needs, Feng Shui, Belief

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• I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get repeated publicity.

  Robert Winston

  Drs, Publicity, Claims

  "Human cloning claims condemned by leading scientists" by Sarah Boseley, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2009.

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• Transforming a brand into a socially responsible leader doesn't happen overnight by simply writing new marketing and advertising strategies. It takes effort to identify a vision that your customers will find credible and aligned with their values.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Writing, Effort, Leader

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• We need to reach out to small 'l' liberal voters who have a modern outlook on life, who want a party that is hard-headed on the economy - more credible on the economy than Labour - but more socially progressive and fairer than the Conservatives.

  Nick Clegg

  Party, Outlook On Life, Needs

  "Nick Clegg takes thorny path out of the Rose Garden". Interview with Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2012.

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• When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%. You hear that? More work. So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Trying, President

  "Bill Clinton Speech Text: Read The Former President’s Democratic Convention Remarks", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Country, Keys, Needs

  Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

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• A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Government, Alternatives, Conservative

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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