#persuade

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. ↗

— Stendhal

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Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily. ↗

— Harry Browne

#attract #avoid #because #earn #elements

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#ability #able #achievement #brilliant #marry

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. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#answers #could #did #hadn #i

If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#army #awaken #commerce #delusion #destruction

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry. ↗

— Simone Weil

#bread #danger #doubt #hungry #itself

When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge. ↗

— Patrick White

#australia #before #cambridge #could #eighteen

There's such a huge link with fashion, with front covers of magazines and selling products, but that's not what you go into the job for, and yet you're persuaded that's what you have to do to create the opportunities for yourself. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

#create #fashion #front #go #huge

We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights. ↗

— William Hague

#democracy #direction #directly #european #european union