Quotes About Rhetoric

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

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

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

attempts to nail down "who we really are" most often serve as rhetorical pawns in unwinnable arguments fueled by competing agendas

It seems to me crucial — even ethically crucial — to treat with caution any rhetoric that purports to have all ethical goodness on its side.

We speak with our lips to explain, with our throats to convince.

Dialectic, she says, describes the rational discussion between those who hold conflicting positions, to find resolution and deduce the truth through the disciplines of logic and reason. Rhetoric, meanwhile, is the art of persuasion. It makes use of invention, arrangement, delivery and style. Therefore, can the delivery and style of rhetoric take precedence over truth?

Guadalupe Fuentes: --They're not paid to kill honest people, to shoot for no good reasons. Rubenia Fuentes: --Ah, my little girl, then why do you think they give them those big guns that look like tree branches and are larger than they themselves? To shoot, baby, to shoot. Because if they don't, that gives rise to talk that the authorities are useless, are nothing more than decoration.

What, " asked Mr Croup, "do you want?""What, " asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?""Dead things, " suggested Mr Vandemar. "Extra teeth.

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

No wonder big pharma will do almost anything to protect exclusive marketing rights, despite the fact that doing so flies in the face of all its rhetoric about the free market.

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.

I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

politicians had long known, people preferred short, catchy answers to complex ones, even if the short answers were oversimplified to the point of ridiculousness. Phrases

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.