Quotes About Persuasion

As a lawyer, I was paid to write persuasively. I was paid to take the same set of facts the other side had and make you believe that my version of it was true, while the other side was doing the exact same thing.

You made up the truth and then buried the real thing under so much garbage that people grew weary of trying to dig through it and instead just accepted what you offered. It was the easy way out and humans were programmed to always go that way.

You are a woman, and you can certainly win a priest to your interests.

Who would not at the present moment wish to retain the persuasion that wives are virtuous? Are they not the supreme flower of the country? Are they not all blooming creatures, fascinating the world by their beauty, their youth, their life and their love? To believe in their virtue is a sort of social religion, for they are the ornament of the world, and form the chief glory of France.

Men are like that, they can resist sound argument, yet yield to a glance.

Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind.

Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind. Nakajima

Do not humiliate or ridicule a person in order to persuade him to change

Money closes more than mouths, it closes minds.

In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

Inventive rhetoric is characteristic of true believers.

Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought.

Thus man believes in truths of two kinds, in those of absolute certainty through direct conviction, and in those of comparative certainty through conviction of the trustworthiness of the authority which propounds them.

Prepping people to believe something was the hard part. Once the framework was established, they became eager to fill in the details themselves, and could be counted on to do so even if those details made little sense. Remar

Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to improve institutions we deem defective. But let us, in doing so, respect the orderly processes of the law. Any other course enthrones tyrants and dooms freedom.

Back then, as now, narratives shaped outcomes in courtrooms.

The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former . . .

You can't believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.

The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model--whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.

everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking...

One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.

Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.