Quotes about Persuasion
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.
— Abraham Lincoln
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
— Abraham Lincoln
Demagoguery is the ability to dress minor ideas with major words.
— Abraham Lincoln
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.
— Abraham Lincoln
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.
— Abraham Lincoln
Persuasion is better than force.
— Aesop
We shall never again try to convince a fool by reason, for it is both useless and dangerous.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Oh, unheard of compassion of the apostle! In seeking to make the Jews Christians, he himself became a Jew! For he could not have persuaded the luxurious to become temperate if he had not himself become luxurious like them;
— Jerome
A young dame with pretty eyes and a smile can make an old man do just about anything.
— Ernest Hemingway
Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.
— Ray Comfort
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
— Henry Ward Beecher