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• The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fear, Real, Vanity

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

  William James

  Sympathy, Lying, Justice

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.284, Harvard University Press

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• We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

  Christopher Fry

  World

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays Three”, p.91, Oberon Books

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• The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what you're saying, and they can't know what you're saying if they don't listen to you, and they won't listen to you if you're not interesting, and you won't be interesting unless you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly.

  William Bernbach

  Believe, People, Interesting

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• God's chief way of acting is by persuasion and patience and long-suffering, not by coercion and stark confrontation. He acts by gentle solicitation and by sweet enticement. He always acts with unfailing respect for the freedom and independence that we possess.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Sweet, Long, Independence

  Howard W. Hunter (1994). “That We Might Have Joy”, Shadow Mountain

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• 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 falsehoods by Hillary Rodham Clinton and declared 'Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady -€” a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation -€” is a congenital liar.'

  Marc Thiessen

  New York, Liars, Lying

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• There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

  Shiv Khera

  Skills, People, Leader

  FaceBook post by Shiv Khera from May 16, 2016

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• 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 to work.

  John Milton

  Art, Lying, Government

  John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.177

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• 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 relations.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Afterlife, Want, Path

  "Today" on BBC Radio 4, news.bbc.co.uk. March 01, 2005.

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• 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 of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

  Aeschylus

  Sacrifice, Hymns, Offering

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.339

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• Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

  Richard Mentor Johnson

  Religious, Constitution, Recognise

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• 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

  Organization, Needs, Spirit

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• 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

  Goal, Trying, Coercion

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• It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

  Aristotle

  Science, Physicians, Use

  Politics VII.ii

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• 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 go outside to a 1st Amendment zone? No! So did it make sense to have a 1st Amendment zone in Nevada? No, of course not. That's ridiculous. If we're talking about one of the most egregious things that happened down there, it was the 1st Amendment zone in Nevada.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Couple, Media

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• 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 all creeds and persuasions-must be able to turn with clear confidence that there they can freely seek the whole truth, unvarnished by fashion and uncompromised by expediency.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Fashion, Home, Race

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.456, Best Books on

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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 with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

  Yitzhak Shamir

  Inspiring, Leadership, Strong

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• I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

  Themistocles

  Hypnosis, Two, Compulsion

  "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Robert Andrews, p. 894, 1993.

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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. And voluntarily, through the private interaction of individuals and associations - what we can call civil society. ... In a civil society, you make the decision. In a political society, someone else does. ... Civil society is based on reason, eloquence, and persuasion, which is to say voluntarism. Political society, on the other hand, is based on force.

  Ed Crane

  Two, Hands, Order

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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 and start afresh and not one of exclusion, unless he is incorrigible.

  Mao Zedong

  Attitude, Mistake, Order

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.140, Lulu.com

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• [A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Sick, Mind

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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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

  Culture, World, Force

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

  Aeschylus

  Heaven, Aloof

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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 certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sacrifice, Men, Winning

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• Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

  Van Morrison

  Politics, Halfway, Occasions

  Song: Glad Tidings, Album: Moondance

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