Holbrook Jackson Quotes

When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they can retain their dignity while they do as you insist. ~ Kahlan Mother Confessor

If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em.

The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

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

I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.

An elder statesman is somebody old enough to know his own mind and keep quiet about it.

Make converts to your own thoughts and opinions.

I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force.

Enchantment and seduction were fine means of persuasion, but when time is short, an awkward but quick concussion could better serve a girl's purpose.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game.” “What . . . what game?” “The only game. The game of thrones.” -(Littlefinger)

Honestly, it’s so easy to get what you want from people if they think you’re a psycho.

That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

Funny how someone telling you not to do something can talk you into it.

Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.

Intelligence can be used to manipulate.

To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

There should be a name for this, for the process whereby one knows one is being yanked and concedes it has been done successfully - that one is grateful to have been spun. In the theater, it is called the willing suspension of disbelief. That's what allows the play to make an impact on the audience: they have to be able to make believe that what's happening on the stage is really happening. Maybe to a degree it is a requirement for all political participation, all effective political communication, too.

I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

Tell me what's wrong with this idea: If you're selling to somebody, find someone like that person to sell to them. If you're trying to reach swing voters, if you're trying to reach people on the fence, if you're trying to reach Republicans who are unsure about this candidate... get people who switched! Get people who are registered Republicans. Get people who were George Bush voters who can't bring themselves to do it again. Talk to them, get them to explain what their reasons are, and show them to people. What's wrong with this idea?!

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