Rhetoric Quotes

Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence.

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.

President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

Vision is not political rhetoric.

Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.

Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

Objective truth itself is sometimes often seen as a right wing Republican-Christian plot to take over the government (though the rhetoric is cleverer than that, that's the bottom line).

The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.

The rhetoric of hate and binarisms pervades the politics of the "Third-World" and of the West.

The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children.

No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.

The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.

The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.

Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows.

I've heard a lot of nasty rhetoric about the president. We're going to kick your rear end out of the White House and stuff. That's just not the way I behave.

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

We cannot all ARGUE, but we can all PRAY; We cannot all be LEADERS, but we can all be PLEADERS; We cannot all be mighty in RHETORIC, but we can all be prevalent in PRAYER.

Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil.

It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.

Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.

The [Ronald] Reagan administration picked up the rhetoric of the anti-nuclear movement; they said "Yyeah, you're right." We have to eliminate nuclear weapons.

Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.

I got my degree in rhetoric.

I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.

People are tired of the status quo. You see that in various movements in and out of our the Republicans party, but most candidates are offering hollow rhetoric, not specific solutions.

If you [Donald Trump] do visit this country [UK], take time to visit the Mosques. Take time to reflect on how dangerous that kind of rhetoric is.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

I'm hearing echoes of Bill Clinton, circa 1996, in President Obama's reelection rhetoric.

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.

What has happened in the past is a lot of good policies have been developed on paper, but you find they are not implemented. So there is a disconnect between rhetoric and practice.

Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation.

We used to actually kill each other before we discovered rhetoric in words. If you look at other countries, there are people attacking each other in parliament and stuff.

If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us.

Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be.

It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

We should always measure a government's environmental rhetoric against its environmental record

Donald Trump has gone from making absurd comments to being downright dangerous with his bombastic rhetoric.

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

I would argue that security and liberty, security and privacy are not actually opposing. The only place those can be oppositional is in the realm of rhetoric but not fact.

I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric.

After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.

Study after study, not only here but in other countries, show that the most affordable housing is where there has been the least government interference with the market - contrary to rhetoric.