Quotes About Persuasion

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propaganda that is very positive. I feel that if you can do something that gets people's attention, then maybe they'll go and find out more about the person.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda.

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.

I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.

People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't.

But words can conquer words.

This is what destroys the fine cities and homes of mortals: words spoken too well.

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I don't believe,' said Mr Prendergast, 'that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it. It's like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn't been told it existed. Don't you agree?

D'you know, Bridey, if I ever felt for a moment like becoming a Catholic, I should only have to talk to you for five minutes to be cured. You manage to reduce what seem quite sensible propositions to stark nonsense." "It's odd you should say that. I've heard it before from other people. It's one of the many reasons why I don't think I should make a good priest.

We conceptualize five main steps in the innovation-decision process: (1) knowledge, (2) persuasion, (3) decision, (4) implementation, and (5) confirmation.

He reached through a slit in his robe into a pouch strapped to his ample abdomen. From it he withdrew a small wineskin. Here, he said, pushing it between the bars. For strength. For courage. Adelard pulled the stopper and drank greedily. They don't feed me and give me very little water. How does it feel? Ramiro thought. How many have you treated the same to make them weak and more easily persuaded by your tortures?

We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.

I've heard it said that Daisy's murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.

I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.

It is not unlikely that she would have accepted any idea encased in this radiant formula—which was perhaps not a formula; it was the reductio ad absurdum of all formulas.