Persuading Quotes - Page 2

• I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.

  Socrates

  Money, Teaching, Men

  "Apology" by Plato (translated by Benjamin Jowett), 2008.

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• The media is not about the arena of ideas. The media is not about persuading. The media is about overcoming the will of the people. The media has joined forces with the Democrat Party, members of the Democrat Party, and the extreme radical left in the United States to advance the extreme radical leftist agenda.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Media, Ideas

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Truth, Light

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.192, University of Georgia Press

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• Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

  Harold Evans

  Tyrants, People, Mind

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• Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.

  B. J. Fogg

  Technology, Simple, Simplicity

  B.J. Fogg (2003). “Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do”, p.33, Morgan Kaufmann

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• I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.

  Socrates

  Long, Curiosity, Gadflies

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• The goal of the FED, as with all central banks, is three-fold: (1) to protect the largest commercial banks from their depositors, who occasionally exercise their contractual right to withdraw currency (the ungrateful cads); (2) to control entry of newcomers into the bankers' cartel (interlopers); (3) to keep the stock market from collapsing in a panic, thereby persuading depositors to withdraw currency

  Gary North

  Exercise, Commercial Banks, Goal

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• Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

  John Cage

  Art, Theatre, Cases

  John Cage (1961). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.174, Wesleyan University Press

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• Today's political leaders demonstrate their low opinion of the public with every social law they pass. They believe that, if given the right to chose, the citizenry will probably make the wrong choice. Legislators do not think any more in terms of persuading people; they feel the need to force their agenda on the public at the point of a bayonet and the barrel of a gun, in the name of the IRS, the SEC, the FDA, the DEA, the EPA, or a multitude of other ABCs of government authority.

  Mark Skousen

  Believe, Thinking, Gun

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• My father has a way of persuading people without charm that has always confused me. He states his opinions as if they’re facts, and somehow his complete lack of doubt makes you believe him. That quality frightens me now, because I know what he told me: that I was broken, that I was worthless, that I was nothing. How many of those things did he make me believe?

  Veronica Roth

  Confused, Father, Believe

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• How lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Marriage, Men, Intuition

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• There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is by the practice of sheer courage. The latter is difficult, and to everybody becomes impossible at a certain point. The former has therefore always been more popular. Primitive magic has the purpose of securing safety, either by injuring enemies, or by protecting oneself by talismans, spells, or incantations.

  Bertrand Russell

  Practice, Two, Safety

  Bertrand Russell (1986). “Bertrand Russell on God and Religion”

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• The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be directly spiritual, but in persuading them to trust in the intercession of ministers or priests. The problem with this approach is that we cannot gain access to spirituality except through the medium of a fallible human being. If we want to see Tao, we need only open our eyes and trust what we see.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Spiritual, Teaching, Eye

  Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• The one and only method of teaching men the true religion was established by Divine Providence for the whole world, and for all times: that is, by persuading the understanding through reasons, and by gently attracting or exhorting the will.

  Bartolome de las Casas

  Teaching, Men, Understanding

  Bartolomé de las Casas (1992). “Witness: writings of Bartolomé de las Casas”

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• A democratic public forms when citizens gather together to deliberate and make public judgments about local and national issues that affect their lives. By associating together for public discussion, citizens learn the skills necessary for the health of a democratic public; listening persuading, arguing, compromising, and seeking common ground. When these skills are nurtured within the institutions of a democratic public, citizens educate themselves in order to make informed political decisions.

  Kevin Mattson

  Order, Skills, Issues

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• I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

  Mark Twain

  Children, Giving Up, Way

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.247, Mark Twain

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• Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and they are good ones, which would probably end up persuading me. But hasn't the time come when we should stop being frightened even to put the question?

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Eugenics, Answers

  "From the Afterword". www.heraldscotland.com. November 20, 2006.

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• Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Believe, Past

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• When your power comes from others, on approval, you are their slave. Never sacrifice yourselves - never! Whoever urges you to self-sacrifice is worse than a common murderer, who at least cuts your throat himself, without persuading YOU to do it.

  Tobias Wolff

  Cutting, Sacrifice, Self

  Tobias Wolff (2003). “Old School: A Novel”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.

  Nicolas Poussin

  Eye, Color, Painting

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• I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

  John Berger

  Writing, People, World

  "John Berger: a life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.

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• Gold is a deep-persuading orator.

  Richard Barnfield

  Gold, Orators

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• I have male fans, but I'm persuading them to become female!

  John Mayer

  Males, Fans, Female

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• The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mean, People, Rose

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