Quotes About Persuasion

I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

You're stealing people's secrets. You convince them to give up their life and imagine the life you've created is real or more interesting. If it's a good play, they'll cry or think private thoughts about their lives or laugh.

I would describe my mother as a steel magnolia. She was very intelligent, very persuasive.

we have a penchant to pay close attention to information that comes to us in the form of a story or personal account.

we believe certain things because they ought to be true.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

In our cynical world, where suspicion is a necessity, insisting that something is true is not nearly as powerful as suggesting that something might be true.

We think, therefore we should make everyone think what we think.

Once she even successfully argued on behalf of my older brother, Dan, getting a BBGun, a weapon which he promptly turned against his younger siblings, outfitting us in helmet and leather jacket and instructing us to run across Eaton Park while he practiced his marksmanship. Today he is a colonel in the army and the rest of us are gun-shy.

He has more tongues in his head than some have teeth.

Had I a ropemaker to my father, and someone had cast it in my teeth, I would forthwith have written in praise of ropemakers, and proved it by sound sillogistry to be one of the seven liberal sciences.

I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.

The wise, and the worthy, need not the triumph of a pamphlet;

There never yet was any truth or principle so irresistibly obvious, that all men believed it at once.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Rhetoric accomplishes its work by inducing us to shift, at least potentially, how we dwell or see ourselves dwelling in the world.

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.

The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living.

Human beings could apparently be turned into killers as effortlessly as turning a key. All one had to do was use a few buzzwords: God. Country, Religion. Honor.

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These clever goddamn people. They really know how to play a guy. But holy Hell, their biggest skill is raping you, all the while making you think you're having consensual sex.