Quotes About Persuasion

Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.

When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.

Your assignment,' he bellowed at Kelly, 'was to make a persuasive argument. Demanding to know whether detractors of your position are on crack is not arguing persuasively.

More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.

The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.

In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it.

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because brute force is not an argument.

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't? - Damon

Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.

Never argue. To win an argument is to lose a sale.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

Advertising is the art of persuasion.

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.