Manly Hall Quotes

Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.

An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

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.

The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

I'm a bit of a propagandist.

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

The greatest weapon in an ideological war is words.

Power comes through public persuasion.

We need to become more acutely conscious that words matter. None of us would deny that ideas and opinions matter, but we can sometimes be careless about how we express them. The words we choose to advance an idea, opinion, or point of view have a huge impact on how people react and respond to that view. When we use hyperbole, we increase the chances of being misunderstood and of promoting equally exaggerated counter-reactions, especially when people are reacting almost instantaneously.

Kennedy understood something that is not so obvious, and that is that words are more important than deeds. You can’t govern 300 million people—or 180 million when Kennedy was president—by doing things. You can only do it by rhetoric.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Words are powerful. The tongue is powerful. And when you write it down, and record it, and press it up, it's 100 million times more powerful. It's important to utilize our tongue to help people.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others.

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.

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