Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. Arthur Miller
We on the left have forgotten that the question is not how do you get good people to rule, most people who rule are mediocre at best and usually venal. The question is how do we make those in power frightened of us and not be seduced by formal political processes. Chris Hedges
Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them. Paulo Coelho
The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. Jeanette Winterson
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue. Don Marquis
The mischievous Pelagians maintain that this sort of grace is not given freely by God but is to be obtained by preceding merits. I myself was once so foolish and empty, when I first applied myself to the study of philosophy, as to be seduced by this error. Thomas Bradwardine