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''For your own good'' is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Persuasion

WriterNew Zealand1924 · 20th century

3.1 · 23 votes

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As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

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William Hazlitt

EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

4.2 · 49 votes · 117 reads

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Call the bald man, ''Boy;'' make the sage thy toy; greet the youth with solemn face; praise the fat man for his grace.

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JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

5.0 · 61 votes · 115 reads

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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

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Lord Chesterfield

PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

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NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

4.2 · 23 votes

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I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

PoliticianAmerican1890 · 19th century

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If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

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AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

3.5 · 37 votes

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If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.

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3.1 · 58 votes

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If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

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Abraham Lincoln

PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

3.0 · 52 votes

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If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

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Lord Chesterfield

PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

4.8 · 45 votes · 109 reads

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If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Benjamin Franklin
PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century
3.4 · 18 votes · 175 reads
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It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
Nelson Mandela
PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century
5.0 · 25 votes · 80 reads
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Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together
Thomas Carlyle
WriterBritish1795 · 18th century
3.8 · 58 votes · 19 reads
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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
Thomas Carlyle
WriterBritish1795 · 18th century
3.9 · 38 votes · 178 reads
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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
Marcus Tulius Cicero
PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC
4.3 · 10 votes · 154 reads
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
PoetGerman1749 · 18th century
4.8 · 47 votes · 81 reads
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People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by others.
Blaise Pascal
PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century
4.2 · 39 votes · 110 reads
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People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
PoetGerman1749 · 18th century
5.0 · 63 votes · 127 reads
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Persuasion is better than force.
Proverb
Anonymous
4.2 · 63 votes · 83 reads
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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
PoetGerman1749 · 18th century
4.9 · 30 votes · 144 reads
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That which proves too much, proves nothing!
Proverb
Anonymous
3.6 · 39 votes · 42 reads
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That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century
4.2 · 6 votes · 102 reads
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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
William Faulkner
WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century
4.1 · 37 votes · 162 reads
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The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
Thomas Alva Edison
ScientistAmerican1847 · 19th century
3.5 · 13 votes · 73 reads
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The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.
Eric Hoffer
AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century
3.8 · 27 votes · 126 reads
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The tongue can paint what the eye can't see.
Chinese proverb
Chinese
3.2 · 61 votes · 111 reads
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Those that will not hear must be made to feel.
German proverb
German
3.3 · 9 votes · 187 reads
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To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
Saint Augustine
TheologianRoman354 · 4th century
3.0 · 25 votes · 161 reads
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To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
PoetGerman1749 · 18th century
3.5 · 5 votes · 63 reads
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When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.
Proverb
Anonymous
4.9 · 16 votes · 95 reads
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
Amos Bronson Alcott
EducatorAmerican1799 · 18th century
4.1 · 52 votes · 55 reads
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Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
Horace
PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC
3.6 · 35 votes · 73 reads
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Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.
Benjamin Franklin
PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century
4.1 · 55 votes · 143 reads
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You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century
3.1 · 41 votes · 59 reads
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