(81 quotes found)
“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
“I think we can work together with the port on this. Let's use community persuasion to help make this work.”
John Greenwood
“I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.”
Themistocles
“The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.”
William Orville Douglas
“I think the presentation on the White Sands Missile Range issue was a very persuasive presentation. It seemed clear to me at the time that the commissioners were listening to the testimony and were somewhat convinced by it.”
Jeff Bingaman
“It will take a lot of persuasion ... that's why I am not promising a miracle at all. We should be prepared for any eventuality because these people will cling to these hostages tooth and nail, I'm sure.”
Nur Misuari
“This was about contributing Hollywood's creative imagination and their persuasion skills to help in this war effort so that one day Americans can lead normal lives again,”
Jack Valenti
“ The Neoconservative Persuasion ”
Irving Kristol
“We see this a lot in social psychology, the idea of social influence and persuasion -- the whole idea that other people do influence our decisions in many different ways. I think what's happening here is that you might like something, of course, but then you find out that it's already popular -- and you like it even more.”
Terry Pettijohn Jr
“What is helping the dollar is the moral persuasion of the central banks. There's been contact between the European Central Bank and national central banks that make up the ECB urging calm, urging a block on any kind of speculative trading. The Federal Reserve has also weighted in and asked that dollar trading be limited. I think that will support the currency.”
Dave Gilmore
