E. W. Howe Quotes

Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what one does not believe oneself.

No advisor is ever listened to just because he insists on being heard.

It's your constitutional right, but if I were you, I wouldn't do it. I can do better for you.

I know propaganda when I see it, and I can speak with authority on it.

There's only a certain amount of times you can tell somebody what they should or shouldn't be doing. If they don't want to take it on board there's little you can do.

Someone will always tell you what you want to hear.

It is said that dispensing advice is easy. What is difficult is getting anyone to listen to it.

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

The broad mass of a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one. The greater the lie, the greater chance that it will be believed. All epoch-making events have been produced not by the written, but the spoken word.

Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.

Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.

Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight

Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality

Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch their judgments, such as they are.

The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.

The advertising industry is one of our most basic forms of communication and, allegedly, of information. Yet, obviously, much of this ostensible information is not purveyed to inform but to manipulate and to achieve a result - to make somebody think he needs something that very possibly he doesn't need, or to make him think one version of something is better than another version when the ground for such a belief really doesn't exist.

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

You don't need the right facts if you have the right inflection.

So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.

It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians.

I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something.

This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.