Quotes About Persuasion

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

In your emails, instead of just writing about your topics, tell a story that illustrates your points.

Hitler's achievement as a speaker was, therefore, to become the main popularizer of ideas that were in no way his invention, and that served other interests as well as his own.

As swords were designed to kill They did well to make them tongue-shaped. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Supporter: Someone who will say anything.

The Sufi way of thinking is particularly appropriate in a world of mass communication, when every effort is directed towards making people believe that they want or need certain things; that they should believe certain things; that they should as a consequence do certain things that their manipulators want them to do.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Partidario: alguien que dirá cualquier cosa.

A la propaganda ya no le interesaba convencer, sino provocar una cacofonía sobre diferentes versiones para que no se estuviese seguro de nada.

People seem to be awfully gullible. They'll believe anything. ~in The NPR Interviews, 1996, edited by Robert Siegel

Only the fool forces all to believe his beliefs.

Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.

How did you make Khasar accept you to succeed me?" Genghis murmured to his back. "I told him he could be khan," Kachiun replied. "I think it terrified him.

a sentence and there was a chance the jurors would choose whatever Miltiades offered. Of course, the defence had the same problem. If Miltiades chose too light a punishment, the jury could easily go for the harder ending. Men liked to see blood; the advantage lay with

At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'

Whenever anyone argues with you about something, just tell them it is foretold—usually works.

Words. Words had the power of exactly, precisely nothing. Hand grenades blow shit up. They meant something when they landed next to you. Words meant someone was talking, nothing more.

people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard. So if you say it like you really mean it to be true, then you're away.

Steve Jobs was quoted in Business Week as saying "A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

The difference between force and persuation is a subtile one not to be drawn by formulas, by force, by science, or textbooks but by men skilled in the art of ruling

You can't reason with fear

And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long as things were good, and in that moment when they could have been good again, was about the irrelevance of words. You feel what you feel, you act as you act, who in the history of the world has ever been convinced by a well-reasoned argument?

You have to fool yourself before you can fool the audience.

If you say something over and over and over, maybe they'll give in to shut you up.

A man may persuade himself, by the most logical reasoning, that he will greatly benefit his health by swallowing live frogs; and, thus rationally convinced, he may swallow a first frog, then the second; but at the third his stomach will revolt. In the same way, the growing influence of the doctrine on my way of thinking came up against the resistance of my whole nature.