Quotes about Persuasion
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.
- Mark Twain
It is easier to fool the people, than to convince them they have been fooled. No man's life,liberty, and property are safe while the legislature is in session.
- Mark Twain
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.
- Mark Twain
It is easier to fool the people, than to convince them they have been fooled.
- Mark Twain
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.
- Mark Twain
Ultimately, a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The cunning devil has told her every unsavoury public scandal of his past life, but always in such a way as to make himself out to be an innocent martyr. She absolutely accepts his version and will listen to no other.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
There actually is an imbecile in existence who asserts that the earth is flat and who has persuaded many people to adopt his view.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun.
- Stephen Colbert
Love is a very compelling argument.
- Brian Houston
There seems to be the utmost danger, that the younger generation will be carried away with Arminianism as with a flood.
- Jonathan Edwards