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I only have disdain for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He raised taxes and has increased regulations. What else is new? He's a bully who wants to micro-manage people's lives by mandate, not persuasion.
Mark Skousen
People
Increased
Else
City
Only
He
New
Bully
Michael
Disdain
York
Mandate
New York
New York City
Mayor
Wants
Taxes
Persuasion
Regulations
Who
Lives
Raised
If Bill O'Reilly is calling you a far-left critic, in my book, no matter what your political persuasion is, that's probably - that probably means you're doing a good job.
Michael Hastings
Good
You
Book
Political
Matter
Good Job
Job
Critic
Calling
Doing
Bill
Means
Persuasion
Your
A lot of people think that persuasion is all about values and aligning values. I largely disagree. I think persuasion generally, and political persuasion more particularly, has much more to do with explaining in new ways and connecting dots in new ways than just invoking emotions and values.
Nick Hanauer
People
Emotions
Disagree
Political
Values
Think
Ways
About
More
Generally
New
Invoking
Particularly
Lot
Than
New Ways
Just
Explaining
Dots
Much
Persuasion
Connecting
Largely
As a young man in South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gandhi developed satyagraha, a mode of political activism based upon moral persuasion, while mobilizing South Africa's small Indian minority against racial discrimination.
Pankaj Mishra
Man
Political
Minority
South Africa
Beginning
Young
Moral
Indian
Small
Developed
South
Discrimination
Mode
Africa
While
Against
Young Man
Century
Racial
Persuasion
Gandhi
Twentieth
Twentieth Century
Activism
Based
I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.
Pete Seeger
Life
Religion
Political
Matter
Situation
Skin
Every
Sung
Color
Never
Sing
Audience
Proud
Am
American
Refuse
Persuasion
Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.
Robert Metcalfe
Good
Master
Resources
Visionaries
Authority
Current
Transcend
Where
While
Realities
Them
CEOs
Persuasion
Organizations
The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God's sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.
Seamus Heaney
God
Behavior
Sense
Took
Superfluous
Seemed
Given
Aristocrat
Unspoken
Sake
Were
Itself
Just
Them
Persuasion
Granted
Code
Speech
No matter what your political persuasion, you can find a guide that makes it quick, easy and painless to exercise your right to vote. Wanna know what a certain proposition put forth by a cadre of undisclosed billionaires which cuts funding for public education, arts and infrastructure means? Use the voting guide!
Steven Weber
Education
You
Vote
Voting
Political
Matter
Public Education
Guide
Easy
Find
Proposition
Cadre
Put
Know
Exercise
Makes
Quick
Arts
Wanna
Which
Public
Infrastructure
Forth
Cuts
Certain
Means
Persuasion
Use
Your
Painless
Billionaires
Right
Funding
I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
Themistocles
Me
Compulsion
Gods
Persuasion
Two
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Truth
Alone
Object
Oratory
Persuasion
I listen. I meet with everybody, I don't care what their political persuasion is - whether it be a labor union or small-business folks or individuals who have problems. But I meet with everybody and listen.
Tom Latham
Political
Problems
Care
Everybody
Meet
Folks
Individuals
Labor
Listen
Whether
Persuasion
Union
Who
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
Become
Kind
Seek
About
More
Consumers
Advertiser
Force
Knows
Want
Packaging
Fulfill
Persuasion
Product
Coercive
Desires
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
William Bernbach
Art
Science
Advertising
Happens
Persuasion
Fundamentally
Whether we make it a condition or just through persuasion or just through popular support, whatever it takes, we really do need to shift through a system of voting where the way the Canadian public votes is the way the Canadian Parliament is formed after the election.
Elizabeth May
Voting
Election
Whatever
Way
System
Through
Parliament
Takes
Support
Votes
Make
Shift
Condition
Canadian
Just
Where
After
Whether
Formed
Public
Really
Persuasion
Popular
Need
What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views.
Richard Dawkins
Imposition
Persuasion
Views
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