Art of persuasion Quotes

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

- Adolf Hitler

I know what it takes to move cities forward. It's not about rhetoric and great speaking, but it takes relationships.

- Aja Brown

I got my degree in rhetoric.

- Alex Borstein

My colleagues, while it is good that the Nation is finally focused on the critical issue of securing our ports, our rhetoric and our passion about Dubai must be matched by the funding necessary to keep our ports and our citizens safe.

- Allyson Schwartz

In terms of stage presence for me, I'm influenced by a myriad of things. A lot of punk performers, people like Dave Vanian from The Damned and Davey Havok from AFI was a huge influence on me when I was younger.

- Andy Biersack

Jean Plaidy was the greatest influence on me.

- Ann Turner

We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today.

- Anne Wilson Schaef

I hope to inspire people, influence people.

- Ashley Tisdale

It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.

- Barbara Amiel

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

- Benjamin F. Wade

English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.

- Bernhard von Bulow

ABBA was a direct influence on me.

- Beth Ditto

I don't think that hard about why people come out to my shows or trying to influence them or anything. I'm just happy that they show up.

- Bill Burr

Mantovani was a great influence on me.

- Brian May

Music and literature have always and continue to be massive influences. Writers such as Seamus Heaney and Frank McGuinness. I have always admired the humanitarians that I knew growing up in Derry whose influence steered me in the direction of some of the work that I have chosen in the past.

- Bronagh Gallagher

A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.' They don't seem to understand I was thrashing in order to hear what I was playing. It was anger, not enjoyment - and painful.

- Butch Trucks

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

- Camille Paglia

An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

- Carl Maria von Weber

In the same way that musicians inspire me, artists and photographers like David LaChapelle influence me with their visuals. A photographer like LaChapelle creates an entirely new and unique visual for their work, and that's what I'd like to do with the Charli XCX world as well.

- Charli XCX

I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.

- Chris Cornell

I don't care what anybody says, there's nothing like the cultural influence of hip-hop. For me, hip-hop culture is involved in everything - it's in me, in who I am, in how I dress, how I talk. It's in my son and my wife.

- Chris Paul

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

- Christopher Lasch

It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.

- Clay Aiken

We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.

- Clifford Geertz

In any kid's relationship with their parents, there's always an influence there. You always want to do them proud.

- Colin Morgan

People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.

- Corey Taylor

Puffy's contribution to hip-hop culture was the remix. He offered us the music that his mom played in front of him, with newer drums and younger artists. That worked, and will consistently be there. The remix comes right after the original record, that's something Puffy did to influence the culture.

- Curtis Jackson

I don't think a lot of people would spot the video-game influences in '10 Cloverfield Lane.' People think it's just a Hitchcockian mystery. And I was heavily influenced by Alfred Hitchcock, for sure. But for a generation prior to mine, that would be the sole influence. Since I grew up playing video games, I drew so much inspiration from that world.

- Dan Trachtenberg

The other guys in Hootie were into rock. I brought the country influence.

- Darius Rucker

My first influence obviously was Picasso.

- David Bailey

Richard Hoggart's cultural analysis 'The Uses of Literacy' was published in 1957, but its influence still hovers over anyone setting out to write seriously about people's affection for things that aren't serious, such as the products of pop culture.

- David Hepworth

When, in his first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan famously said government is the problem, not the solution, he established the Republican mantra that has not changed in all the years since. It was a clever bit of rhetoric, but it has turned too many Republicans into economic simpletons.

- David Horsey

Obama had reached out to the business community, they just haven't liked all of his decisions and some of his rhetoric. But generally, I think the administration is quite open and accessible.

- David Rubenstein

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

- DeForest Kelley

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

- Dexter Gordon

History does influence our lives - every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have these memories and these images from our past that sometimes we're not even aware of, and they sort of shape who we are.

- Dinaw Mengestu

I'm very close with my fans. I'm very involved with my fans, so I've seen the influence that I can have on a child or on the mind of somebody.

- Drake Bell

My campaign confirmed my belief that although there are bigots in America, whose hateful rhetoric seizes the media's attention, the vast majority of people do not harbor such prejudice.

- Edward Brooke

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

- Edward Hopper

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

- Eliot Spitzer

God's people are peculiar. Their spirit cannot mingle with the spirit and influence of the world. You do not wish to bear the Christian name and yet be unworthy of it.

- Ellen G. White

American influence is not what it used to be.

- Fareed Zakaria

I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.

- Francesca Lia Block

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

- Friedrich Schiller

I have spent a lot of time studying the issue of relationships, how I grew up, my parents' influence on me. I've talked to a therapist,; I've looked inward spiritually at myself, and what it seems to come down to is that I'm a Sagittarius. Please don't make me reveal more than that. It's tough enough as it is.

- Garry Shandling

Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in their attempts to score political points, they are also inciting violence.

- Gary Bauer

This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.

- Gary Johnson

We must continue to step in and stand up to resist reckless rhetoric and actions in a peaceful and forceful manner.

- Gavin Newsom

Even if Donald Trump's successful, it's the beginning of the end if this rhetoric persists in the Republican Party.

- Gavin Newsom

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

- Gerrit Smith

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

- Gerrit Smith

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

- Gilbert Parker

Ronald Reagan, who led the larger New Right project of re-sanctifying U.S. foreign policy after its Vietnam disaccreditation, felt compelled to drape his support for Central American death squads in the rhetoric of American exceptionalism.

- Greg Grandin

If someone arrives, fully functional yet a tabula rasa, how does their environment influence, educate, even mold them? And if that is a nurture question, then where does that character's nature fit in? How does that manifest?

- Greg Rucka

I get influence from everybody and everything.

- Guy Fieri

I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if he'd lived: imagine what a guiding influence he could have on the world were he still among us.

- Hampton Sides

Personal narrative is one of the few things where people don't get caught up in fighting over esoteric rhetoric.

- Hasan Minhaj

Obviously, this whole 'no child left behind' idea is more rhetoric than actual practice.

- Hill Harper

One of my biggest influences of all time would be somebody like Tom Waits. David Bowie is another huge influence. I'm also a big fan of St. Vincent and Leslie Feist.

- Hozier

Unfortunately, violent events and hate-filled rhetoric around the world provide ample opportunity for promoting religious hostility.

- Ibrahim Hooper

Affluence means influence.

- Jack London

There are many examples in our history of overheated rhetoric leading to fear and prejudice and government overreach. My own grandfather, a sociologist, was dragged in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He said he wasn't a Communist and explained that American Negroes were patriots like everyone else.

- Jeh Johnson

You'll find so many of the guitarists from the '60s will all say Lonnie Donegan was the influence.

- Jimmy Page

It shows courage, and it shows commitment to move beyond the status-quo politics of rhetoric, which is all the Cuban-American community has received from any party for the last half century.

- Joe Garcia

It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind.

- Johannes P. Muller

Leadership is influence.

- John C. Maxwell

When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

- John F. Kerry

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

- John Fund

Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.

- John Piper

So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric.

- John Podesta

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

- John Podhoretz

Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war.

- John S. Tanner

In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

My mother is not a woman of ordinary culture. She knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I do. She even corrected my poems and gave me advice when I was studying rhetoric.

- Jose Rizal

I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.

- Julia Hartz

Balanchine is the number one influence for me. His work was really musically driven. He and Jerome Robbins were the ones who really showed me that dance could be about the inner relation between movement and music. When I was a student first seeing their work, I was like, 'Oh, this is a thing?'

- Justin Peck

If you listen to Semi-Precious Weapons' last single, 'Aviation High,' you can definitely hear that even in my old band, even in the songs I was writing then, the pop influence really started to take over.

- Justin Tranter

I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

- K. D. Lang

When the state machinery defends criminals and the public prosecutors collude with the accused in certain cases and the victims are members of a particular community, then 'Justice to all' is empty rhetoric.

- Kapil Sibal

I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.

- Kat Dahlia

I definitely don't think of myself as being an influence.

- Kate Bush

If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.

- Kate Upton

The Millennials, a generation born digital, will have a much stronger impact on social behaviour than we currently assume. Global climate change and resource security will influence our lives in substantial ways.

- Klaus Schwab

Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.

- Lana Wachowski

The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.

- Madeleine M. Kunin

My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.

- Maira Kalman

I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

- Mandy Patinkin

I don't see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think.

- Marc Jacobs

Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them.

- Margaret Chan

What politicians do is they never get the rhetoric wrong, and the price they pay is they don't speak the truth as they see it. Now, I will speak truth as I see it, and sometimes I don't get the rhetoric right. I think that's a fair trade-off.

- Mary Beard

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

- Mel Brooks

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

- Mel Brooks

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

- Michael Harrington

Companies understand that if their employees are sick, it's really expensive. So despite the rhetoric I hear, thank God employers are still in the health-care system.

- Michael Porter

We are tired of Obama's empty speeches and his misguided rhetoric.

- Michael T. Flynn

I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.

- Michel Houellebecq

Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.

- Mitt Romney

Reagonomics - a blend of monetarism and fiscal Keynesianism swathed in classical liberal and supply-side rhetoric - is in no way going to solve the problem of inflationary depression or of the business cycle.

- Murray Rothbard

In terms of design, it's true the world has an influence. But, as a designer, you have to protect yourself. You have to look at the world and then forget it.

- Nicolas Ghesquiere

As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride.

- Paul Martin

We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.

- Paul Ryan

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

- Plato

If Trump's actions as President reflect his campaign rhetoric, the ACLU and other capable organizations like it will be critical for defending the Bill of Rights for all Americans.

- Reid Hoffman

Even if 'going retrograde' or 'moving into Aquarius' were real phenomena, something that planets actually do, what influence could they possibly have on human events? A planet is so far away that its gravitational pull on a new-born baby would be swamped by the gravitational pull of the doctor's paunch.

- Richard Dawkins

I don't get myself caught up in the rhetoric of any personal comments that are made.

- Roger Goodell

In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance.

- Ron Kind

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

- Russell Baker

It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

- Saad Hariri

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.

- Saul Williams

That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out.

- Shelby Lynne

I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.

- Sir Mix-a-Lot

The Republican Party needs to be very, very careful that it maintains the Golden Rule in its rhetoric regarding immigration policy.

- Sonny Perdue

I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts.

- Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

- Stephane Mallarme

Because of economics, you have to feed the demographics that are buying your product. So, as Asia becomes a much more economic influence on the products that are being made from America, I think people have to be sensitive.

- Sung Kang

Landscape is more than flat land covered by floodwater, the seeping of peat bogs, a river of liquid pewter viewed from a sentry tower. It's an influence on what a person values, what she is willing to sacrifice or argue for.

- Susan Vreeland

Do not listen to the rhetoric from campaigns, but rather, hold everyone of us accountable, hold me accountable and every other candidate accountable to be a consistent conservative.

- Ted Cruz

People don't understand how much influence they can actually have on a writer, how much a writer's feelings can be hurt, how much they can deflect his course when they raise their voices like they did over highly personal books like 'Panama' or 'Bullet Park.'

- Thomas McGuane

In rhetoric and action, the Trump administration has aggrandized 'radical Islamic terror,' thus making what Madison called a 'favorable emergency' more likely.

- Timothy D. Snyder

It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild animals. The rhetoric about how the animals are happy and well cared for are lies. Don't be swayed by them. The money behind these shows is huge; there is nothing good about them.

- Tippi Hedren

I think in the heat of emotions, some rhetoric is said that is a little explosive.

- Tommy Thompson

I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.

- Viktor Yanukovych

The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.

- Virginia Foxx

More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

- Wen Jiabao

Competition and competitive rhetoric can be healthy. It's what drove the United States to pursue the Soviet Union into space, creating countless innovations along the way.

- Wendy Kopp

Bohr's influence on the physics and the physicists of our century was stronger than that of anyone else, even than that of Albert Einstein.

- Werner Heisenberg

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

- William Butler Yeats

I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.

- William Shirley

There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.

- Zac Posen

I've got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up.

- Zayn Malik

I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.

- Ziad Doueiri