The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.
Denis Diderot
Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction.
Jean Baudrillard
No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
Aneurin Bevan
A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.
Mason Cooley
I suppose that romantic love was invented as a brilliant means of seduction.
SIGMUND FREUD
Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of .
Anthony Powell
The seduction was slow, each request only went a bit further than the last and the horror of what was happening didn't strike me at that time.
Justin Berry
Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
Andrea Dworkin
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Natalie Clifford Barney
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Marya Mannes
Pursuit and seduction are the essence of SEXuality. It's part of the sizzle.
Camille Paglia
And so one can imagine that in amorous seduction the other is the locus of your secret the other unknowingly holds that which you will never have the chance to know.
Jean Baudrillard
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso