Quotes About Persuasion

No matter how well you argue from premises to conclusion, your conclusion will be weak if your premises are weak.

Although you may tell lies, people will believe you, if only you speak with authority.

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality.

The trick is that you have to believe the lie and believe it so much that the lie becomes the truth.

Perhaps it's no coincidence that the word words is an anagram of sword. Well-used words cut through ambiguity and confusion like a sharp sword in the hands of an expert swordsman.

A person who has been telling to the people merely that what they are willing to hear to fulfill their selfishness and forgive their committed sin is indeed not motivating but misleading them only.

Fools remain glued to the idiot box called TV for hearing often only news and even parroting the same before others to spread it as own views.

Liars speak often so eloquently that even the truthsayer starts doubting on his own thoughts.

Money alone has the power to make the people cheer in favour or raise a voice against any person at any place.

Money alone has the power to make the people cheer in favour or raise anti-voice against any person at any place.

The clients will negotiate or bargain always in any profession even if the sales person offers them heaven.

Causality is a pointless superstition. These days it would take more than one book to persuade anyone of that.

Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.

To make the worse appear the better reason.

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

Even if you persuade me, you won't persuade me.

For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.

Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.

Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.

Our statements will be adequate if made with as much clearness as the matter allows.

In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude.

There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.

We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.