Quotes About Persuasion

Blythe was Viktor's in. He'd arranged a casual meeting and swept her off her feet. He was good with women. He knew exactly how to read them and what they wanted and needed. He was good at providing.

I can see this is going to take some heavy persuasion." His lips moved over her face like a brand, fastened on her mouth, and rocked the very earth. "No one should be able to kiss like you do," Raven whispered. He kissed her again, tantalizingly sweet, his tongue sliding over hers sensuously, pure magic, pure promise. "Say yes, Raven. Feel how much I need you.

Woman, you could drive a man to his knees

There is a germ of religion in human nature so strong that whenever an order of men can persuade the people by flattery or terror that they have salvation at their disposal, there can be no end to fraud, violence, or usurpation.

Some statements are too blunt for everyday, consensual discourse. In national "debate," it is the smoother pebbles that are customarily gathered from the stream, and used as projectiles. They leave less of a scar, even when they hit. Occasionally, however, a single hard-edged remark will inflict a deep and jagged wound, a gash so ugly that it must be cauterized at once. In

the idea that two and two make five, for instance, was suggested by multiple sources. Stalin's propagandists were fond of saying that they completed the first Five Year Plan in four years; this was sometimes rendered for the simple-minded as 2+2=5.

Tertullian, one of the many church fathers who found it difficult to give a persuasive account of paradise, was perhaps clever in going for the lowest possible common denominator and promising that one of the most intense pleasures of the afterlife would be endless contemplation of the tortures of the damned. He spoke more truly than he knew in evoking the man-made character of faith.

Why did I speak of intellectual courage? Because the human mind, including my own, rebels emotionally against the idea that something as complex as life, and the rest of the expanding universe, could have 'just happened'. It takes intellectual courage to kick yourself out of your emotional incredulity and persuade yourself that there is no other rational choice.

I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.

Enchantment and seduction were fine means of persuasion, but when time is short, an awkward but quick concussion could better serve a girl's purpose.

Joshua grinned: "I think we'll both do better than my cousin John and his 'hold them underwater until they agree with you' sermon.

The only way to control the faithful is to not become one of them

You tell soldiers what they need to hear to go to war. Bitches need a mission, not a goal.

In the right hands, words can move more bricks than the strongest team of mules.

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

The last thing I want to do is expend my energy trying to convince my own coworkers.

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

There are words that give power, others that make us all the more derelict

L'insinuazione efficace è quella che riferisce fatti di per sé privi di valore, ancorché non smentibili perché veri.

Los simples, Adso, no pueden escoger libremente su herejía: se aferran al que predica en su tierra, al que pasa por la aldea o por la plaza.

The most effective insinuation is the one that gives facts that are valueless in themselves, yet cannot be denied because they are true.

False tales are, first of all, tales, and tales, like myths, are always persuasive.

The simple cannot choose their personal heresy, Adso; they cling to the man preaching in their land, who passes through their village or stops in their square. This is what their enemies exploit.

Después de pasarme dos años entre humanistas que recitaban fórmulas para convencer a la naturaleza de hacer cosas que no tenía la menor intención de hacer, recibí noticas de Italia: mis antiguos compañeros, o al menos algunos de ellos, se dedicaban a dispararle a la nuca a los que no estuviesen de acuerdo con ellos, para convencer a la gente de que hiciese cosas que no tenía la menor intención de hacer.