Quotes About Persuasion

Our urgent need today is to reunite evangelism and apologetics, to make sure that our best arguments are directed toward winning people and not just winning arguments, and to seek to do all this in a manner that is true to the gospel itself.

Again, the heart of apologetics is the apologetics of the heart.

apologetics is pre-evangelism in that it addresses those who do not realize they are in a bad situation, and therefore do not see the gospel as the good news that it is.

A great way to persuade people is by making them feel like they're missing out, because people are much more likely to participate in something if they feel like they're the only ones not doing it.

Be a likeable and relatable voice of reason.

Before you ask the person to vote, do something nice and unexpected that will make that person feel the need to reciprocate the favor.

Create a sense of obligation. When you want to persuade someone to do something, one of the best ways you can accomplish this task is to make that person feel obligated to you.

People are much more likely to be interested in things they can't have, so you may be able to persuade people to vote by questioning whether that right will always exist.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings its own song.

indoctrination rather

There's a sucker born every minute.

Si dice che tirino più due tette di un paio di buoi, ma la vera arma segreta di una donna, per prendere all'amo un uomo, è dimostrare di provare una certa ammirazione per lui. Per mia fortuna conosco il trucco e quindi mi concentro sulle tette.

A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance; its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.

hear the language, this English, double-jointed as Bedivere's limbs. It only sounds awkward. In its ability to join one concept to another as with pegs, its dependent clauses, figures of speech and cadenced alliteration, a man can say one thing five ways and yet imply a sixth; can change meaning with an inflection, a pause or a deliberate misuse of a word, can mock, scorn and flay an opponent without uttering one overt insult.

Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear words-but then he could have said "bunny rabbit" in that tone of voice and weaken my spine with the same shiver of fear.

Asil left Bran alone with his thoughts then, because if he stayed, Bran would argue with him. This way, Bran would have no one to argue with but himself. And Asil had always credited Bran with the ability to be persuasive.

I'd have thought that persuading people to do what they wanted to do would have been easier.

Not for the first time, he wished for a more facile tongue. His brother could sometimes change the Marrok's mind—but he never had. This time, Charles knew his father was wrong.

Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, 'Kill it. Squish it.

Controllers think differing ideas and views are personal opposition to be rejected and destroyed. And, since Controllers identify themselves with their prescriptions, it becomes important to them that others be dissuaded of theirs. Their success is measured in conversions.

No you haven't, or you would never have been persuaded by anything your father and I and Grams Brennan ever said.

Ethos, Pathos, and Logos

If you are trying to get people to like you and become their friend, you are essentially selling yourself, and repeated exposure helps make the sale. Simply