Persuade

Famous quotes containing the word persuade:

“We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“They can rule the world while they can persuade us
our pain belongs in some order.
Is death by famine worse than death by suicide,
than a life of famine and suicide ... ?”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

“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 (1857–1924)