Quotes About Persuasion

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

But ideas can make men forget their own interests. And the guys in charge will exploit men who believe in ideas too much.

You know when you meet someone so smart and cool that all their tastes and opinions seem like the correct ones? And you instantly think: those are my opinions now too!

A man's mouth can save him. His speech makes one forgive him.

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make 'em think.

I bet your mom would let me." -Pigeon, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus-

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

siempre estamos, consciente o inconscientemente, midiendo nuestro poder: hasta dónde podemos lograr que otros hagan lo que queremos o evitar que nos impongan cierta conducta.

Power needs a captive audience.

Both power and influence can change the behavior of others or, more specifically, make others do something or stop them from doing it. But influence seeks to change the perception of the situation, not the situation itself.

el poder es aquello con lo que logramos que otros tengan conductas que, de otro modo, no habrían adoptado.

Power operates in relation to others.

Power is the ability to direct or prevent the current or future actions of other groups and individuals. Or, put differently, power is what we exercise over others that leads them to behave in ways they would not otherwise have behaved.

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

That is the usual strain of all your kind; They must have every one as blind as they.

Je ne me fîerai point à des propos si doux, Qu'un peu de ses faveurs, après quoi je soupire. Ne vienne m'assurer tout ce qu'ils m'ont pu dire.

If someone tries to sell you something with a brain on it … ask to see the evidence. Ask for the part of the story that's not being told.

What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.

Overcome with anger, David grabbed her other arm. Why did she have to be so stubborn? Why couldn't she see how good The Wave could be? "We can stop you, and we will!

He is no mean poet, and his verse can rouse or persuade even if his logic fail to convince. His message is not for the Mohammedans of India alone, but for Moslems everywhere: accordingly he writes in Persian instead of Hindustani—a happy choice, for amongst educated Moslems there are many familiar with Persian literature, while the Persian language is singularly well adapted to express philosophical ideas in a style at once elevated and charming.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles.

For this essential acceptance, the majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better than other conceivable alternatives. Promoting this ideology among the people is the vital social task of the "intellectuals." For the masses of men do not create their own ideas, or indeed think through these ideas independently; they follow passively the ideas adopted and disseminated by the body of intellectuals.

For all governments—but especially democratic governments—must work hard at persuading their subjects that all of their deeds of oppression are really in their subjects' best interests

Beliefs are everywhere, you don't have to be a religious person to believe something.