Great Persuasive Speech Topics

If you are stuck up for a subject for your persuasive speech at school/ college, do not worry. There are endless subjects that can help you for your persuasive speech. However, before choosing your speech topics, you should take a time limit, the age of your audience, etc. into consideration. The following are some interesting persuasive speech topics for school as well as college students.

Good Persuasive Speech Topics

These are the best and the most popular persuasive speech topics all over.

1. 2012 end of the world: Is the world going to end in 2012?
2. Afterlife: Is there life after death?
3. Should students have to wear school uniforms?
4. Vampires: Are vampires real?
5. What is the importance of public opinion in media
6. Global warming: Fact or fiction
7. God: Myth or reality
8. Should death penalty be allowed?
9. Should cell phones be allowed in schools?
10. Is honesty the best policy?
11. Mental attitude affects the healing process.
12. Death of Diana, Princess of Wales was not an accident.
13. Is the world really free of apartheid?
14. Youth, the most important force of a nation.
15. Is the stem cell research ethical?
16. Love / money is the most important thing in life.
17. Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
18. Marijuana should be banned completely.
19. Is dieting harmful?
20. Is beauty superficial or skin deep?
21. Smoking should be banned completely.

Fun Persuasive Speech Topics

Apart from the serious persuasive speech topics mentioned above, if you want something light, then you can go through the following list of funny persuasive speech topics.

• Reality shows are not real.
• Joining Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry will be fun.
• Comedians are funny because they have good joke writers.
• Ghosts do / do not exist.
• 3D virtual world Second Life leads to frustration.
• Good advice is always perceived as not good.
• Everything is not fair in love and war.
• Blonds are not stupid.
• Life is not to be taken seriously.
• Health insurance should be free.
• Limiting alternatives helps in making easy choices.
• Most boring conversations take place at formal parties.

Some More Speech Topics

Part-Time Jobs	Unidentified Flying Objects	Bluetooth Technology	Abortion
Life on Mars	TV Shows	Friendship	Smoking
Air Pollution	Water Pollution	Noise Pollution	Vegetarianism
Organic Foods	Obesity	Animal Testing	Sex Education
Oscars	Recycling	Population Growth	Eating Disorders
Drug Addiction	Holocaust	Generation Gap	Drug Abuse
Internet Technology	Globalization	Gun Safety	HIV/ AIDS
Online Education	Internet Privacy	Illegal Immigration	Addiction
Employment Discrimination	Terrorism	Nuclear Weapons	Global Warming
Space Explorations	Relationships	Gay Marriages	Organ transplants
Gambling	Outsourcing	Teenage Smoking	Exercise
Infidelity	Advertising	Dating	Prayers
Beauty Pageants	Artificial Intelligence	Homosexuality	Bottled Water
Mass Media	Deforestation	Environmental Issues	Spirituality
War Crimes	Human Rights	Astrology	Gender Selection
World Religions	Inflation	Stem Cell Research	Genetic Engineering
Euthanasia	Human Cloning	Teenage Pregnancy	Patent
Birth Control	Cosmetic Surgery	Gene Therapy	School uniform
Artificial Insemination	Death Penalty	Robotics	Mobile Phones
Social Networking	Acid Rain	Magazines	Business ethics

I hope you found these speech topics useful. So, once you choose the subject, research on it, draw an outline for your speech and go for it. Ciao!