Quotes About Rhetoric

You'll mold the minds of men and women to your will, and make any group yield to the dominion of your voice. Even more important, you'll get them to want to yield, to commit to your plan, and to consider the result a consensus.

For persuasive purposes, the opinion of your audience is as good as what it knows, and what it thinks is true counts the same as the truth.

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while logic is excellent and noble, and a first-rate way to make a friend look like a drooling idiot, a perfectly logical argument fails to persuade most of the time.

La retórica se desvaneció en el mundo académico durante el siglo xix, cuando los científicos sociales descartaron la idea de que un individuo pudiese enfrentarse a las fuerzas inexorables de la historia.

even launched a website, Figarospeech.com

Yo me enamoré de las figuras e incluso lancé una página web, Figarospeech.com, dedicada a ellas. Las figuras añaden lustre a un memorando o a un artículo, y en

Rhetoric has a name for debating that seeks to win points: eristic.

En una lucha, los contendientes intentan vencer. En una discusión, intentan vencer a una audiencia, que puede incluir a los testigos directos, los telespectadores, un electorado o los interlocutores.

Pretty agreeable of me, yes? The ancient Greeks gave a name to this kind of anticipatory concession, agreeing in advance to what the other person is likely to say: prolepsis, meaning

No obstante, las parejas exitosas discutían de manera diferente y con un propósito distinto. Los retóricos dirían que seguían instintivamente los principios básicos de la discusión.

La diferencia esencial entre una argumentación y una lucha: una argumentación efectuada con destreza consigue que la gente haga lo que tú quieras. Luchas para ganar; discutes para alcanzar un acuerdo.

If Landon took the high road, Gerald L. K. Smith, Father Coughlin, and the Union party took the low. Alarmed at Lemke's failure to gain traction, Union party rhetoric escalated to a level of vituperation seldom seen in American public life. "I'll teach them how to hate," Smith boasted. "Religion and patriotism, keep going on that. It's the only way you can get them really 'het up.'

Fascism is theater.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Words are loaded pistols.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. — Rudyard

To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business—not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into… rhetoric and plot.

Beware of men who can string words together like pearls.

Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

These struggles to change the world: I've seen them end either in a miserable dictatorship bloated with simplistic ideology applied with no less primitive rhetoric, or in a profitable business for a handful of cynics who always pretend to be disinterested, decent people committed to the welfare of the country and its inhabitants. In either case, the dead, the orphans and widows, become pretexts for parades and ceremonies as sickening as they are hypocritical. The great lie built on grief.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

Because a lot of people are hurting economically and being shafted by the very wealthy, it's been possible here in the United States of America to organize them and persuade them that to elect a nincompoop like Donald Trump is actually in their best interest. When clearly it isn't.