Persuasion Quotes

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion. (Themistocles)
Persuasion is better than force. View quote
Aesop
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be, this is the path of persuasion (for truth is its companion); the other, that it is not and that it must not be - this I say to you is a path wholly unknowable. View quote
Parmenides
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. View quote
Aeschylus
He that has truth in his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue. View quote
John Ruskin
For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force...it is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice. View quote
John Chrysostom
There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns. View quote
Ayn Rand
If what the philosophers say be true,-that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain,-so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage. View quote
Epictetus
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. View quote
Yitzhak Shamir
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion. (Alfred Nobel)
I do deeply deplore, of the sake of the cause, the prevalent notion, that the clergy must be had, either by persuasion or by bribery. They will not need persuasion or bribery, if their hearts are with us; if they are not, we are better without them. It is idle to suppose that the kingdom of heaven cannot come on earth, without their cooperation. View quote
Sarah Grimké
It is really - one of the things in it that I heard yesterday in his testimony that I thought was disturbing was this - what did he call it? - a massive persuasion campaign. That sounded a little bit like Goebbels or Gore-bels. View quote
Glenn Beck
Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art. View quote
William Bernbach
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity. View quote
Zig Ziglar
The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. View quote
Mark Skousen
The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done. View quote
Mark Twain
Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe. View quote
Plato
612. At the end of reasons comes persuasion. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
The way is not always easy, but in order to bring a work through to completion, you will need a strong character, a broad foundation of knowledge and an enormous force of persuasion. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends. View quote
Edward H. Levi
I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them. View quote
Henry Hudson
I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time. View quote
Jenny Mollen