Quotes About Persuasion

I had won the argument, but somehow, as in our college days, he had won the audience.

Our proper mode in situations where demand was high and supply was low was to elbow, jostle, crowd, and hustle, and, if all that failed, to bribe, flatter, exaggerate, and lie.

Don't try to make someone hate the person he loves, for he will still go on loving, but he will hate you.

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

You can convince anybody of anything if you just push it at them all of the time. They may not believe it 100 percent, but they will still draw opinions from it, especially if they have no other information to draw their opinions from.

Would the unbeliever really believe in Christ just because you argue for biblical infallibility in a way that he cannot rationally object?

People hate being told what to do or what to believe, although they think this way in part because they have been told to do so.

If it refuses to honor biblical revelation, we shall whip it into submission with the hard chain of logic.

if you learn and apply the biblical approach to apologetics, you will be able to decisively crush any non-Christian in debate. You will be able to completely bewilder and embarrass any unbeliever.

it is not an apologetic to close your mouth and expect the unbelievers to convince themselves that the gospel is true because of your love and holy lifestyle.

In so many church situations, nobody thinks they have problems. They simply have convictions and they're trying to get everyone else to live up to them.

To-day, it is no exaggeration to claim that out of the eleven countries smashed and overrun by Germany, half of them were destroyed, not by tanks, but by propaganda.

People believe what they want to believe. They also believe what people in leadership tell them.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats—and one always secretes too much jelly.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

The drive to convert people's minds and hearts has caused more grief, more suffering, more loss of life than any desire for property, riches, or even the necessities of survival.

How do you convince your split personality that he's not real?

Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice.

All I have is a voice To undo the folded lie.

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.

Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they're good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you believe a good magician has pulled the coins out of your ear, or made his assistant disappear. But the words on the page have no connection to the person who wrote them. Writers live other peoples' lives for them.

Never Get Into An Argument With A Customer. If You Win The Argument You Will Almost Invariably Lose The Sale. And I Don't Like Your Chances For A Sale If You Lose The Argument Either.