Persuasion Quotes

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead" "People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive" "The best way to get information from people is to make them think you already know it" "I believe that the most powerful weapon you can have is the power of conversation." "When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it" "You do not like them So you say Try them Try them And you may Try them and you may I say" "The devil can cite scripture for his purpose." "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" "I would rather try to persuade a man to go along because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him he will stay just as long as he is scared and then he is gone" "If you want power, at some point you will have to convince some humans to trust you" "The very fact that the left seems to have no alternative to their failed policies—other than the notion that, since people were not persuaded by their arguments, those arguments must be repeated in a louder voice—suggests a cognitive dissonance that defies logic" "The tongue is mightier than the blade" "If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value it?" "One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds" "When we consider the target audience of propaganda, we must recognize a natural self-defense mechanism: the critical faculty."