Quotes About Persuasion

Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly–they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

Las palabras, como los rayos X, atraviesan cualquier cosa, si uno las emplea bien.

If you want to get men to act reasonably, you must set about persuading them in a maniacal manner.

Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly—they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced. That's one of the things I try to teach my students—how to write piercingly.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons- that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

It is by manipulating "hidden forces" that the advertising experts induce us to buy their wares—a toothpaste, a brand of cigarettes, a political candidate. And it is by appealing to the same hidden forces—and to others too dangerous for Madison Avenue to meddle with—that Hitler induced the German masses to buy themselves a Fuehrer, an insane philosophy and the Second World War.

The Machiavelli of the 20th century will be an advertising man, his Prince , a textbook of the art and science of fooling all the people all the time.

Cuanto mayores son los talentos de un hombre más grande es su poder de corromper a los demás.

Cien repeticiones tres noches por semana, durante cuatro años -pensó Bernard Marx, que era especialista en hipnopedia-. Sesenta y dos mil cuatrocientas repeticiones crean una verdad. ¡Idiotas!

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons—that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

Propaganda may be defined as opposed to rational argument; argument based upon facts. Argument based on facts aims at producing an intellectual conviction; propaganda aims, above all, at producing reflex action. It is aimed at bypassing the rational choice based upon knowledge of facts and getting directly at the solar plexus, so to speak, and affecting the subconscious.

The really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power.

The negative propaganda of silence is probably more effective as an instrument of persuasion and mental regimentation than speech. Silence creates the condition in which such words as are spoken or written take most effect.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

Tel est le but de tout conditionnement. Faire aimer aux gens la destination sociale à laquelle ils ne peuvent échapper.

Words are the most powerful of weapons if you use them properly - they'll cut through anything. But what's the good of that if the things you write about have no power in them?

In the end she persuaded him to swallow fou tablets of soma. Five minutes later roots and fruits were abolished; the flower of the present rosily blossomed.

As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons -- that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

Los mayores triunfos de la propaganda se han logrado, no haciendo algo, sino impidiendo que ese algo se haga

Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly – they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced. That

No, not synthetic starch and cotton-waste flour-substitute,' he has insisted. 'Even though it is more nourishing.' But when it came to pan-glandular biscuits and vitaminized beef-surrogate, he had not been able to resist the shopman's persuasion. Looking at the tins now, he bitterly reproached himself for his weakness.

Si el adoctrinamiento está bien conducido, prácticamente todo el mundo puede ser convertido en lo que sea

Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly – they'll go through anything.