Persuasion Quotes - Page 15

• 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 the just and unjust.

  Gorgias

  Art, Law, Answers

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• Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The less of one, the more of the
  others. The degree of freedom that is possible is therefore tied to the extent to which people respond to persuasion or inducement.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Choices, Degrees

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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 walks of life, all backgrounds, and all political persuasions who love liberty enough to fight to maintain it.

  Chuck Baldwin

  Fighting, America, People

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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 do not know.

  Plato

  Knows, Seeking

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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 to influence. Delivering the wrong content at the right time is as bad as delivering the right content at the wrong time.

  Colleen Jones

  Technology, People, Helping

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• Persuasion occurs when trust and confidence meet belief, risk tolerance, and safety.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Safety, Tolerance, Risk

  Twitter post from Feb 24, 2016

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• I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.

  Jenny Mollen

  Thinking, Would Be, All Time

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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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 modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.

  Haim Ginott

  Children, Fall, Frustration

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• To please people is a great step towards persuading them.

  Lord Chesterfield

  People, Steps, Please

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.71

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• Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

  Euripides

  Too Much, Zeal

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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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 excuse, a refuge; never a check.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Passion, Mind, Religion

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.732, Pearson Education

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• The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives, the better and the worse. Civilization is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however, unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilization, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals. Thus in a live civilization there is always an element of unrest.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mean, Adventure, Men

  "Adventures of Ideas".

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• We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.

  Herodotus

  Convinced

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• The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.

  William O. Douglas

  Use, Violence, Instruments

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”

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• I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes of peaceful persuasion applied to material problems rather than through wars, riots and bloodshed.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Spiritual, War, Believe

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• The effect of speech upon the condition of the soul is comparable to the power of drugs over the nature of bodies. For just as different drugs dispel different secretions from the body, and some bring an end to disease and others to life, so also in the case of speeches, some distress, others delight, some cause fear, others make the hearers bold, and some drug and bewitch the soul with a kind of evil persuasion.

  Gorgias

  Evil, Drug, Soul

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• There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him, that thus he is an overmatch for all antagonists that could combine against him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Courage, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2508, Delphi Classics

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• Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Distance, Shopping, Trout

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• In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Art, Imagination, Grace

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• 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 into two kinds - that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Country, Religious, Government

  "American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382, 438". Judicial opinion, 1950.

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• Facts and credibility only support persuasion.

  Dan S Kennedy

  Support, Facts, Credibility

  Dan S. Kennedy (2011). “The Ultimate Sales Letter: Attract New Customers. Boost your Sales.”, p.69, Adams Media

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