Dan Brown Quotes

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

I can't manipulate anybody's minds.

I'm very good at manipulation.

I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."

Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind.

Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

I have no interest in trying to manipulate people's emotions or opinions.

Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.

Tactics are manipulative.

I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.

Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

If I get ‘em by the short and curlies, the hearts and minds will follow.

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what one does not believe oneself.

Once a person insists on how you are to think he immediately begins to insist on how you are to behave.

One need only watch totalitarians at work to see that once men gain power over other men’s minds, that power is never used sparingly and wisely, but lavishly and brutally and with unspeakable results.