Change Minds Quotes

In a well-functioning democracy, people frequently encounter topics and points of view that they did not specifically select but from which they learn. Those encounters can change minds and, even, the course of lives.

When permitted to listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. It can happen.

I think history has shown that the worst way to [try to] bring people over and actually change public opinion is by insult and applied degradation of them.

I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.

I want to inflict some change on people.

The only way I've learned to change anyone's mind politically is to make them laugh. My whole career has been about that.

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

We have the ability to change people's minds and hearts - that's what we want to do with theatre. That's what theatre does... period.

I got a little tired of movies where I had to shoot people. I got to thinking about the power of film and what that power is. The power is in fact that it really can change people's minds.

My goal has not ever been to change minds, my goal is to open minds.

You have to change people’s minds to stop inflation.

I want to change peoples' minds about music, I want to bring the really brutal experimental stuff to peoples' attention.

Together we can change our culture for the better by ending violence against women and girls, artists have a unique power to change minds and attitudes and get us thinking and talking about what matters, and all of us, in our lives, have the power to set an example. Join our campaign to stop this violence.

It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.

If you want to permanently change men's minds and hearts, you have to trust in the power of the spoken word.

What I and other commentators do is attempt to move the public opinion. We try to change minds.

It is not your duty or responsibility to change the minds of other people. The nature of their thinking is advanced or limited by their experience. In your presence, they have an opportunity to learn about you and, perhaps, to grow.

To my mind this makes psychedelics central to any political reconstruction, because these are the only force in nature that actually dissolve linguistics structures; lets the mechanics of syntax to be visible, allows the possibility for rapid introduction and spread of new concepts; gives permission for new ways of seeing; and this is what we have to do, we have to change our minds.