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The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.
— Edward Bernays
Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.
— Francesco Guicciardini
It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable.
— Hubert Van Zeller
Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?
— Robert Jordan
Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay
— Milton Friedman
Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.
— Marge Piercy
It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
— Agnes Repplier
To get real leverage, you have to persuade them that they have something concrete to lose if the deal falls through.
— Chris Voss
The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.
— Gloria Steinem
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
— Stendhal
To have a dream is a do or die so you have to persuade it with patience; you must have a room for challenges and a room for criticisms.
— Euginia Herlihy
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesn't have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.
— Andrew Dominik
There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.
— Tom Robbins
We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
— Euripides
It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
— Nelson Mandela
You can't persuade someone to love you.
— Nicola Yoon
To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.
— Charles Horton Cooley
I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more
— Jane Austen
I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.
— Rebecca West
The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.
— Harry Allen Overstreet
You can't persuade most of the public that education and making a living aren't the same thing.
— Robertson Davies
Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.
— Joan Acocella
The best way to persuade is with your ears.
— Dean Rusk
I thought to myself: 'Is the pain a little less than when I went away?' and tried to persuade myself that it was so.
— Graham Greene
Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
— William Hazlitt
Only a perfect rose, has the power to persuade a perusal of its petals
— Gaiven Clairmont
You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.
— Riccardo Muti
Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade.
— George Steiner
Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.
— Elizabeth Lesser
I'm not going to try and persuade her to reconcile with some sleazy git who's been having affairs left, right and centre.
— Rachael Lucas
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I like [Barak] Obama. I like him. So how far does rationality help to persuade anybody? You know, I'm not so sure.
— George Saunders
Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.
— Chauncey Wright
We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle.
— Jalal Talabani
If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
— Ieyasu Tokugawa
I'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them.
— Jeremy Corbyn
Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.
— W. H. Auden
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.
— Bill James
I hate that I never managed to persuade you to watch Buffy. It's a flaw in you, Mara.
— Michelle Hodkin
Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.
— Russell Baker
A man may be hard to persuade by rational argument while he is easily swayed by a display of passion, even if it is feigned.
— Yukio Mishima
The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living.
— Thornton Wilder
The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.
— Brennan Manning
It is a pity that we cannot persuade all ministers to be men, for it is hard to see how other was they can be truly men of God.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.
— Billy Wilder
Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.
— John C. Maxwell
Whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
— Michel De Montaigne
To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.
— William Safire
The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise ...
— Mark Twain
It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to persuade others is the second.
— Louis Pasteur
The human mind's capacity to persuade itself of things it wants to believe is damn near limitless.
— Greta Christina
When you offer a negative thought of action, you open the negative memory-bank and you may lose all your power to persuade.
— Napoleon Hill
Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party.
— Andrei Codrescu
We must persuade Iran not t have nuclear weapons through peaceful and diplomatic means. We want a peaceful planet.
— Mitt Romney
I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.
— Amitav Ghosh
I don't persuade to suicide.
— Jack Kevorkian
People are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.
— Richard Hooker
That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
— Adam Hughes
It had seemed simple in theory to persuade one of them to allow a male into her bed and heart. The reality of it was anything but easy.
— Laurann Dohner
I know people who will gently persuade you to be forthcoming.
— Ilona Andrews
108. You minimize my moves in anyway, I must persuade you another way.
— Maynard James Keenan
it is even harder to persuade people who do not wish to be persuaded.
— Steven D. Levitt
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
— Seneca The Younger
With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.
— Samuel Johnson
We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential.
— Tony Snow
In autobiography, as in all literature, what actually happened is less important than what the author can manage to persuade his audience to believe
— Salman Rushdie
If somebody learns how to phrase things beautifully, they might be able to persuade you of something that isn't true.
— Mark Forsyth
A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull.
— Jerome K. Jerome
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fools are more hard to conquer than persuade.
— John Dryden
I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.
— Richard Harris
I have often found that the best way to persuade anyone to do something they suspect is to explain that they really need not do it.
— Mavis Doriel Hay
Hopefully, he'll be able to persuade Hades not to kill you. That wouldn't be conducive to the start of a good relationship.
— Rosanna Leo
I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.
— Edward Burtynsky
