Quotes About Persuasion

He trades on emotions, not facts.

Keith Park was a popular and persuasive man. He had quelled a near mutiny in 1918 by assembling the airmen and talking to them on random subjects and in such a monotonous voice for so long that all rebelliousness was destroyed by fatigue.

He remembered the PM saying that every Russian is at heart a chess-player, and every American at heart a public-relations man. Well, Bret Rensselaer's zeal did nothing to disprove that one. The sheer audacity of the scheme plus Bret's enthusiasm was enough to persuade him that it was worth a try. Bret nodded to acknowledge the compliment.

A lie told often enough becomes truth.

The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all means - by preaching, persuasion, contempt and ridicule.

What's all this love of arguing? No one ever convinces anyone else.

In a world where the people are numbed and distracted, the only thing that sells is the unbelievable.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. --Fables for Our Time, Moral of "The Owl Who Was God" (1940)

Socialization is not primarily cognitive. We are not persuaded rationally not to pee in the living room; we are required not to. We then rationalize and obey this rule even when no authority figure lurks to enforce it.

If members of the elite come to think that their privilege was historically justified and earned, it will be hard to persuade them to yield opportunity to others.

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.

What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I will end up an old maid.

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk

How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!

You should have distinguished,' replied Anne. 'You should not have suspected me now; the case so different, and my age so different. If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here.

Where the mind is perhaps rather unwilling to be convinced, it will always find something to support its doubts.

Do come now, said he..., pray come, you must come, I declare you shall come.

A weak spirit which is always open to persuasion, first one way and then the other, can never be relied upon.