Quotes About Persuasion

It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good.

Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

I do not have much confidence in the political system and never did. My goal has always been to change people's minds because as long as people demand more government, they will get it.

As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a fundamental principle of government already emphasized by David Hume.

Influence is not government.

Real leaders like Lee Iacocca see vast possibilities and sell their dreams to their companies, their employees, their funding sources, their government and their buying public.

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.

All truly great art is propaganda.

Converting liberals is always a great thing. It makes every day worth living.

You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.

We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed.

Health makes good propaganda.

I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk the warden into building a hole or two and teach him how to play.

I think comedy is a good way to help people change their minds. I think that if you're laughing and getting a message across, it's a lot easier than when somebody is screaming in your face.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.