Source: Designing complex organizations, 1973, p. 26
“The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty, and bloody-mindedness.”
Source: The Light Fantastic
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Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
Source: Systems Engineering Tools, (1965), Systems Engineering Methods (1967), p. 70; First sentences of Ch. 3. Formulating and Structuring the System
In this text Harold Chestnut is here citing:
C. West Churchman, Russell L. Ackoff, and E. Leonard Arnoff (1957) Introduction to Operations Research. Wiley. New York, and
J. Morley English (1964) "Understanding the Engineering Design Process." The Journal of Industrial Engineering, Nov-Dec. 1964 Vol 15 (6). p. 291-296

“Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Task of Social Hygiene, ch. 3 HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/books?id=nAoAAAAAYAAJ&q=%22charm+which+means+the+power+to+effect+work+without+employing+brute+force+is+indispensable+to+women+charm+is+a+woman%27s+strength+just+as+strength+is+a+man%27s+charm%22&pg=PA81#v=onepage

“Persuasion is often more effectual than force.”
The Wind and the Sun.

By the time our children are old enough to examine the evidence, our propaganda has closed their minds.
Source: 1930s, Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), Ch. 17: The Ethics of Power
Situado en alguna nebulosa lejana hago lo que hago, para que el equilibrio universal de que soy parte no pierda el equilibrio.
Voces (1943)

“Accept of things, having procured them by persuasion, not by force.”
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 230)

“The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.”
Mark Skousen in: Connor Boyack Latter-Day Liberty: A Gospel Approach to Government and Politics http://books.google.com/books?id=xp79xx4QfrkC&pg=PA266, Connor Boyack, 2011, p. 266