“The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.”
Dean Rusk
“A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Stalin acted not through persuasion, explanation and patient cooperation with people, but by imposing his concepts and demanding absolute submission to his opinion. Whoever opposed this concept or tried to prove his [own] viewpoint, and the correctness of his [own] position, was doomed to removal from the leading collective and to subsequent moral and physical annihilation.”
Nikita Khrushchev
“There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory”
Mark Twain
“A soft Tongue may strike hard.”
Benjamin Franklin
“People of every ethnic group and religious persuasion have got to be given the right to live here,”
Wesley Clark
“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”
Aristotle
