Quotes About Persuasion

What changed your mind?" Say I did. Say it was me!

Yes, Morgana was stronger. Yes, the queen had packed one hell of a persuasive punch. But love would triumph.

If you want to communicate an idea to a man's brain, you talk to him through his pecker. It's like an ear horn, y'all.

Are you going to want sex with me now? she hastily asked to distract him. Because I already gave at the office__

The only power he has is what you give him. Ginny to Michael

Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't? - Damon

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.

If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.

Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].

There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

It seems to me that if you can't make a good solid case for your faith, you don't have a religion, you just have a habit.