The Power of Speech

Charisma: A mysterious hability to enforce your personality on another person and make them feel attached to you. It is a great weapon to make someone do what you want. But IF you want to influence lots of people at the same time, you will need more than that. You will need rhetoric. Rhetoric is the art of oratory, the art of making a good speech. All the great leaders of human history were skillful in this art. A good example is Adolf Hitler, who managed to convince a whole nation to support his nefarious ideology of National Socialism. Despite writting a book that inspired people, the “Mein Kampf”, Hitler acknowledged that the true Power lyes in the spoken Word. Another man with this Power was Winston Churchill. Churchill made arousing speeches to inspire people to fight for their rights and when they were hopeless, to not give up and combat the Nazi Germany. It is said that speech is the finest of the forms of art, because it requires that the performer has knowledge of all the other arts and the world around them. I’m not surprised by this affirmation; before people could write, paint, or even sing, people could speak.