Quotes About Persuasion

The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.

Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.

Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.

Men are led by trifles.

A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.

There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side.

The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.

There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one.

The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

A proof is that which convinces a reasonable man; a rigorous proof is that which convinces an unreasonable man.

Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men in all classes of voters.

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods.