Forceful Persuasion Quotes

For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because brute force is not an argument.

I don't think I'm cut out to be a supervillain. I think I'd be a supervillain that would exercise some form of mind control. Rather than war, I'd force people to get on with each other and I'd force people to argue reasonably about things rather than be polemical. So I'd be a supervillain that makes everyone get on, but forcefully. There would be no choice about it. No free will.

Michael had to pound me a couple of times to convince me not to go stage a rescue." Shane shrugged. "He hits like a girl, for a vampire.

What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.

I'm not trying to shove anything down anybody's throat.

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

I always thought it odoriferous for people to go about trying to pummel others with their ideas.

You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.

This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe- - that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity.

the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.

Who pleases one against his will.

If you didn't want to believe in me, that's OK, because I'll make a believer out of you.

Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.

I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat, unless they're covered in a crunchy candy shell.