manipulative speech Quotes

Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word like, 'I love you' but it means nothing more to him than if he said, 'I'll have a cup of coffee.'

talent to hoodwink the blind, and with a facility of speech well calculated to deceive the ignorant …

[British Prime Minister William] Gladstone is a sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination, that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign his opponents, and glorify himself.

We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc.

Quit demagoguing. It's not true.

It hurts not the tongue to give faire words.

If people ever talked the way advertising sounded, they would be put away.

I cannot bring myself to vote for a woman who has been voice-trained to speak to me as though my dog has just died.

In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.