Coercive Persuasion Quotes & Sayings

Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge. — Charles Wagner

I had not thought of violets of late,
The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet
In wistful April days. — Alice Dunbar Nelson

People keep telling me that I'm a legend in Merthyr and a legend in many other places. Here's my understanding on that, what's a legend? I don't really know what a legend is, I don't even know the word. I'm not a King Arthur reincarnate either. I might be one of the Round Table, but I'm not King Arthur. — Stephen Richards

Art can only progress towards its own self-annihilation. — Richard Appignanesi

Persuasion has become a kind of force. The more the advertiser knows about what consumers want, and the more desires the product and packaging seek to fulfill, the more coercive the force. — Virginia Postrel

Cried Meg, and the rehearsal ended in a general burst of laughter. — Louisa May Alcott

Holding his breath, swaying drunkenly beneath a bulb which illumined little more than grime and moisture, Moon stared awhile at the cement wall; it took just such a hopeless international latrine in the early hours of a morning, when a man was weak in the knees, short in the breath, numb in the forehead and rotten in the gut, to make him wonder where he was, how he got there, where he was going; he realized that he did not know and never would. He had confronted this same latrine on every continent and not once had it come up with an answer; or rather, it always came up with the same answer, a suck and gurgle of unspeakable vileness, a sort of self-satisfied low chuckling: Go to it, man, you're pissing your life away. — Peter Matthiessen

I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite. — Rick Yancey

In the same way, we have to inform the multitude that restoration comes at a price. Suppose we give them an intimation of the cost through a series of questions. Are you ready, we must ask them, to grant that the law of reward is inflexible and that one cannot, by cunning or through complaints, obtain more than he puts in? Are you prepared to see that comfort may be a seduction and that the fetish of material prosperity will have to be pushed aside in favor of some sterner ideal? Do you see the necessity of accepting duties before you begin to talk of freedoms? — Richard Weaver

It sounds cheesy, but music has saved me in a lot of ways. If I had just continued acting, I don't think I would be alive. — Jenny Lewis

England is the first country that I've had a no. 1 album in, so it is now officially my home away from home. — Justin Timberlake

There are no foolproof methods of persuasion, and those that come closest are coercive and dangerous because they override the will rather than convince the mind. — Os Guinness