“Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We haven't unfortunately been able to persuade Apple Corps in relation to their Beatles catalogue. But we have persuaded everybody else.”
Anthony Grabiner
“Moscow hopes to use energy as a trump card to persuade the Western leaders that it's a powerful player to reckon with.”
Yevgeny Volk
“An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct”
Voltaire
“The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.”
William Shakespeare
“He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;Exceedingly wise, fair-spoken and persuading;Lofty and sour to them that loved him not;But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.”
“I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.”
Charles Darwin
