Quotes About Persuasion

During that time, I began writing and designing the propaganda that we distributed to the students who we were trying to convince to join us.

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

That's the way it is with influence, you know; if you don't use it all the time, people will forget you have it.

After a lifetime of engaging in long, passionate discussions I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time trying to convince anyone of anything.

The more often a person tell a lie-the more time u hear lie,u begin to believe it-if it's told often enough,u start begin to believe it

You want to say the thing that will drive everybody in the direction you want to go. But as a writer you have a pact with your readers that you'll be really straight with them at all times.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

It is easier to fool the people, than to convince them they have been fooled. No man's life,liberty, and property are safe while the legislature is in session.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.

I know all about audiences, they believe everything you say, except when you are telling the truth.

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No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.

It is easier to fool the people, than to convince them they have been fooled.

they came to jeer, but remained to whitewash.

For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon--laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution- these can lift at a colossal humbug- push it a little - weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.