Kim Harrison Quotes

We have to be reasonable people.

The thing is, when everyone is trying to persuade you that a thing you know to be true isn't actually true, you start to believe them: not because it is true but because it's easier. It's just the easy way out.

when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him.

You can only coax someone into the vortex from in the vortex.

It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiasticall y they drive you to your own destruction.

You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly normal people. When the right person touches the right button in someone, you can get them to do almost anything.

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

People don't like to be nagged. When people nag us, we instantly resist, but when the facts force us in that same direction, we instantly adapt.

President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

I've always been very good at convincing people. For instance, if I arrive in an airport and I'm in economy, I can always convince the guy to put me in first class.

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.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

Reasonable, sensible men can always make a reasonable scheme appear such to other reasonable men.

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

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make man agree to his own destruction.

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

Propaganda tries to surround man by all possible routes in the realm of feelings as well as ideas, by playing on his will or on his needs, through his conscious and his unconscious, assailing him in both his private and his public life. It furnishes him with a complete system for explaining the world, and provides immediate incentives to action.

Those who tell us to be in touch with our own desires are often merely trying to make us believe that what we want is the thing that they are selling. […] We're used to that kind of persuasion, for political candidates as well as commercial products.

It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people.