Quotes About Persuasion

Language has an ideological agenda that is apt to be hidden from view.

For on television the politician does not so much offer the audience an image of himself, as offer himself as an image of the audience.

What the advertiser needs to know is not what is right about the product but what is wrong about the buyer.

without dissatisfaction, there's no basis for a sale.

It's not lying, it's flirting.

When we read in the Bible: "I, even I, am He. I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; and there is no god beside me" (Deuteronomy 32:39), this is not a being outside of you speaking; this is the Being that you really are, speaking within you, trying to persuade Himself of His own wonderful power to create. It can kill, and yet it can make alive. It can resurrect from the dead. And that is your own wonderful human imagination.

When you can persuade yourself 100% that you are successful, success is yours! You must become so intense that you completely forget it was only a desire. You must tame the wild, new state you have entered until its naturalness causes you to forget all else. That is how God became you.

Choose your desire and, to the degree that you are self-persuaded that you have it, you will get it. And, because we are all one, if it takes one million people to aid the birth of your assumption, they will do it, without their knowledge or consent, so you don't have to ask anyone to aid you. They will do it not even knowing that they are.

Second, successful health reform will require a much more morally compelling, persuasive style of communication than Republicans are used to. Eight years of opposing Obama and the temptation to remain negative will be hard to unlearn, but it is essential to governing.

Is it Locke who says that it is one thing to show a man he is in error and another to convince him of the truth? You have shown me my error. Pray reveal the whole truth.

It was, she believed, a simple and unassailable fact of life that if a woman went to epic lengths to throw herself on the mercy of a man, the man would not, could not, refuse.

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parrhesia, the speaker uses his freedom and chooses frankness instead of persuasion, truth instead of falsehood or silence, the risk of death instead of life and security, criticism instead of flattery, and moral duty instead of self-interest and moral apathy.

What did Lincoln say about fooling people? "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.

She would watch and learn. Find out why Paulinus was taking such an interest in her, the king's niece, why he seemed to want to persuade her of his god.

Even though your sister is now the overking's peaceweaver, we must show our strength and make our persuasions in person.

For the next hour and a half I watched him flirt indiscriminately with men and women, couples and groups and singles, flashing out that smile, hooking them in, dismissing them after a sentence or two when it became clear he could have them if he wanted.

The freer man believes he is, the easier it is to indoctrinate him.

Being reactionary is understanding that it is not possible to demonstrate or convince, only to invite.

Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

Users of slippery slope arguments should take skiing lessons—you really can choose to stop.

Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.