Quotes About Persuasion

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

If I don't believe in your god, it means he was incapable to manipulate me.

Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand.

When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief.

If you can get conservatives to sit down for 20 minutes and listen to you on drug policy reform you might have a good chance to - if not convert them - at least respect your opinion.

In order to deceive others, you must first deceive yourself.

If a Christian really believed that his neighbor will be tortured in all eternity in Hell, he should try day and night to persuade him to repent and believe. How sad that this doesn't happen.

Words can be powerful allies. Or enemies

I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

We may all possess wisdom if we are willing to be persuaded that the experience of others is as useful as our own.

You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.

How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.

Telling effective stories is not easy. The difficulty lies not in telling the story, but in convincing everyone else to believe it.

As a species, humans prefer power to truth.

Homo sapiens is a post-truth species, whose power depends on creating and believing fictions.

How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism?

A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.

great power inevitably distorts the truth.

Contar histórias eficazes não é fácil. A dificuldade está não em contar a história, mas em convencer todos os demais a acreditarem nela.

us. Christians and Muslims who could not agree on religious beliefs could nevertheless agree on a monetary belief, because whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something.

the mind is never free of manipulation.

A person who wishes to influence the decisions of governments, organisations and companies must therefore learn to speak in numbers.

because whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something.

Much of history revolves around this question: how does one convince millions of people to believe particular stories about gods, or nations, or limited liability companies? Yet