Quotes from Kenneth Burke

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his

For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.

The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.