Quotes About Rhetoric

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Few politicians speak that way today. In the decades after RFK, progressives largely abandoned the politics of community, patriotism, and the dignity of work, and offered instead the rhetoric of rising.

The tyranny of merit arises from more than the rhetoric of rising. It consists in a cluster of attitudes and circumstances that, taken together, have made meritocracy toxic.

Los liberales igualitarios que defienden el Estado del bienestar sobre la base del igualitarismo de la suerte se ven condenados, casi inevitablemente, a recurrir a una retórica de la victimización que describe a los perceptores de ayudas como individuos sin agencia, incapaces de actuar de forma responsable.

Trump supporters resented liberals' rhetoric of rising, not because they rejected meritocracy, but because they believed it described the prevailing social order. They had submitted to its discipline, had accepted the hard judgment it pronounced on their own merits, and believed others should do the same.

Democrats—lily-livered, weasel-assed collaborators.

Liberal education intertwines the philosophical and rhetorical so that we learn how to learn, so that we continue both inquiry and cultural participation throughout our lives because learning has become part of who we are.

The leitmotif for Trump about his own campaign was how crappy it was and how everybody involved in it was a loser.

everybody understanding that nine-tenths of what came out of his mouth was blah-blah

eager to walk back, by whatever increment possible, Trump's hard-line immigration policies and rhetoric. Ryan and others had devised a simple method for accomplishing this kind of objective: you agreed with him and then ignored him. There was happy talk, which Trump bathed in, followed by practical steps, which bored him.

The mantra was simple: if there was no Wall, there was no Trump. Stopping immigration was the Trump story.

right, until he found just the right words – not too difficult words, but words with some fire and juice in them.

What the commissar said was again repetitious. He declared that the governments of the capitalist countries were being ruthlessly exploited; the farmers in those countries were working with primitive implements. Only in the Soviet Union were farmers taken care of: they were happy; they were embarking on the socialist way of production (he said this as if it were an accepted fact); and they were supplied with the best agricultural machinery.

Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.

It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.

El candidato presidencial revela un extraordinario talento para «leer» a su audiencia y dar un discurso a la medida de las esperanzas y los miedos de quienes le escuchan.

No hay quien supere al héroe del pueblo en su don de palabra, en su carisma.

El populismo vive en un mundo de fe e instinto, no de datos y ciencia.

a veces pareciera que no gobierna sino que está en una campaña electoral permanente.

C'est un parleur étrange, et qui trouve toujours L'art de ne vous rien dire avec de grands discours.

He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.

What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.

Conscious symbolism governed medieval representation. Grammar, for instance, was pictured as an old woman with a knife and file to operate on students' mistakes. Rhetoric was an imposing woman whose dress was ornamented with the figures of speech.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.