Quotes about Persuasion

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

Ultimately, a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt

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.

There actually is an imbecile in existence who asserts that the earth is flat and who has persuaded many people to adopt his view.

The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun.

Love is a very compelling argument.

There seems to be the utmost danger, that the younger generation will be carried away with Arminianism as with a flood.

I thought to myself: 'Is the pain a little less than when I went away?' and tried to persuade myself that it was so.

God acts toward his people, as much as possible, but since he is a God of persuasion rather than coercion, God also allows his people to act on him and to thereby condition the form his self-revelation takes, as much as this is necessary to remain in solidarity with, and to continue to work through, his fallen and culturally conditioned people.

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.

She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble making myself love them