Quotes About Persuasion

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

Referring to the PAP as uncaring so as to persuade some of our fellow Singaporeans to consider casting their vote for the WP will be self-defeating for us.

You can change my mind, but you gotta work harder at it.

I would say 'Harlem World' is a cult and at the end we're gonna have everybody believin'.

I don't believe my house was haunted. I think I had an overactive imagination, and I was so convinced that those around me became convinced, too.

Telling a story about someone has enormous power. People forget a headline. They remember a story.

I think I got the ability to speak the truth, and that gets in peoples' heads.

I like turning heads and making people believers.

Anything that a man hears is sexy is gold to him.

One day Dad was driving in to New York to appear on a telethon. I hid in the back seat until he had gone too far to turn back. I pleaded with him to let me appear on the telethon with him. He finally agreed. Richard Rodgers happened to be watching the telecast, and he called Dad afterwards with the offer of a job for me.

I believe we should appeal to people at the higher levels.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

Comrade, said Snowball, those ribbons that you are so devoted to are the badge of slavery. Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons? Mollie agreed, but she did not sound very convinced.

The animals listened first to Napoleon, then to Snowball, and could not make up their minds which was right; indeed, they always found themselves in agreement with the one who was speaking at the moment.

Few people have the guts to say outright that art and propaganda are the same thing.

Goldstein was delivering his usual venomous attack upon the doctrines of the Party—an attack so exaggerated and perverse that a child should have been able to see through it, and yet just plausible enough to fill one with an alarmed feeling that other people, less level-headed than oneself, might be taken in by it.

Se le persone non sanno scrivere bene allora non sanno pensare bene e se non sanno pensare bene altri penseranno per loro.

Literature is an attempt to influence one's contemporaries through the recording of experience.

The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further.

Ce n'est pas la première fois que je remarque combien, en France particulièrement, les mots ont plus d'empire que les idées. (It's not the first time I've noticed how much more power words have than ideas, particularly in France.)

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.