Rhetoric Quotes
Rhetoric Quote of the day
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.
My strong point is not rhetoric , it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises - those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.
To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.
I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust.
In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns.
The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the "liberal" rhetoric of "equal time." But mistake it not.
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.
Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric has become so heated, that conversation is almost impossible.
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.
I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
I really deplore the tone of his campaign and the inflammatory rhetoric that he is using to divide people. I don't know that Donald Trump has any boundaries at all.
I definitely don't agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States - this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved militarily.
Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.
We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.
How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away by rhetoric?
We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not.
For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death.
The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
There is practically no area of business where the difference between rhetoric and actuality is greater than in the handling of people.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.
These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.
Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in rhetoric, if not practice, of liberal democracy.
We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.
To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.
What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence.
Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.