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Film · Drama (film) · Drama

Always be closing.

Glengarry Glen Ross · 1992

★ 7.2

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Who overcomes By force hath overcome but half his foe.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 5.6

Novel · Philosophical literature

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

The Fall · 1956

★ 4.5

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

Plato, Phaedo · 360 BC

★ 3.9

Essay · Political literature

For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist 1 · 1787

★ 3.7

You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him.

1874

★ 3.6

Whether you are dealing with an animal or a child, to convince is to weaken.

1932

★ 2.7

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

1846

★ 1.9

Film · Film noir · Crime (film) · Crime

Well, sir, there are other means of persuasion besides killing and threatening to kill.

The Maltese Falcon · 1941

★ 1.9

Historical literature

Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · 1789

★ 1.2

The only way I can get you to do anything is by giving you what you want.

How to Win Friends and Influence People · 1936

★ 1.2

Essay · Biography

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of "touching" a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

G.K. Chesterton

1902

★ 0.9