Persuasive Communication Quotes

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.

ِAn offer you can't refuse.

That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.

Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in some way participate of both; since all, to a certain extent, attempt, as well to sift, as to maintain an argument; as well to defend themselves, as to impeach.

His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him.

All Marketers are liars tell stories.

Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

Don't try to convert the elderly person; circumvent him.

People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

The planned use of information targeted at specific audiences using any media available to achieve desired outcomes that primarily benefit the source

It's difficult for people to visualize from my drawings what it's going to be, so I often find myself talking them into things that they go along with, and when they see what's been made, they are surprised.

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

There's a fine line between information and propaganda.

I argue very well. Just ask any of my remaining friends.

The eros of advertising is lurid but not specific.

I too realize that the less I preach the more likely I am to be heard.

You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

No matter what Hitler said, he spoke with a fine feeling for the particular circle which he addressed. ... He was a great psychologist.

Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.

Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing.