Quotes About Persuasion

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

If good people would but make goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many they would win to the good cause.

She flashes me a smile so devastating that it could even make an atheist believe in God.

We are sitting here and conquering their hearts.

Cuando las autoridades son muchas, tienden a cancelarse entre sí, y la única autoridad efectiva es la de quien debe elegir entre ellas (...) las autoridades ya no mandan, sino que intentan congraciarse con los electores por medio de la tentación y la seducción.

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

A drop of honey gathers more flies than a gallon of gall

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

He who moulds public sentiment goes deeper than ehe who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.

Demagoguery is the ability to dress minor ideas with major words.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Lincoln characterized Stephen Douglas's argument as a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.

demonstrates quite clearly Swift's maxim that you cannot reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into.

The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading, and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires.

I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous.

The problem with breaking up with someone, if you are a little unsure — and so often, people are unsure — is that breaking up involves persuasion. You have to persuade your ex that it is better this way for everyone. And this is difficult if you have not entirely persuaded yourself. It is especially tricky to do this if you are also naked, and making two cups of coffee.

No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward

Persuasion is better than force.

The North Wind and the Sun

Our model of evil ... is Satan, not because he does the wrong things, but because he induces others to do the wrong things by persuading them that evil is right.

new techniques of mass persuasion. "We must shift America from a needs to desires culture," Mazur said. "People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed. We must shape a new mentality. Man's desires must overshadow his needs.

Don't try to trick the prospect. Advertising is not a debate. It's a seduction. The

Wanting to sound like other people has its temptations. There are inherited habits of speech guaranteed to make us sound authoritative, intelligent, worldly, appropriately grateful, or deeply moved.