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Persuasion Quotes

"When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state"

"I believe that the most powerful weapon you can have is the power of conversation."

"You do not like them So you say Try them Try them And you may Try them and you may I say"

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead"

"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"

"You can close more business with a kind word and a smile than with a hard-hitting pitch."

"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"

"Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause "

"One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them."

"You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done"

"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak"

"When we consider the target audience of propaganda, we must recognize a natural self-defense mechanism: the critical faculty."

"The devil can cite scripture for his purpose."

"Words are loaded pistols."

"Logic and sermons never convince."

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