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Quotes About Suasion

There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity.
~ Angelina Grimke
The myth of the detached manipulator and compliant crowd has, since the Twenties, also been abundantly re-echoed by academic students of mass suasion.
~ Edward L. Bernays
Government should eschew suasion and directives to banks on interest rates that run counter to monetary policy actions.
~ Urjit Patel
By every law of nature and sex a kiss was the only rejoinder that fitted the mood and the moment, under the suasion of which Sue's undemonstrative regard of him might not inconceivably have changed its temperature.
~ Thomas Hardy