Quotes About Rhetoric

But words are more powerful than anything.

Desprezava os discursadores, os astutos que entram na política como quem entra na advocacia, para ganhar dinheiro com a retórica.

Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after

Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Charientism (n.) A rhetorical term to describe saying a disagreeable thing in an agreeable way. If I knew how to say disagreeable things in an agreeable fashion I most likely would not be spending most of my time siting alone in a room, reading the dictionary.

But in recent years, whether because of growing strength or growing frustration with the lack of progress, the Left has upped the ante. A shift in tone, rhetoric, and logic has moved identity politics away from inclusion—which had always been the Left's watchword—toward exclusion and division.

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.

we should resist the tendency, which is part of the rhetoric of the Gospels and their reception, to associate disability with sin.

Anti-Jewish and potentially anti-Jewish rhetoric goes unnoticed in so much Christian scholarship because the authors are not attuned to how their words sound to different ears. The

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

The only people who say worse things about politicians than reporters do are other politicians.

Siyaset uygulay?c?lar? ve profesyonel siyasetçiler, siyasal kavray??tan çok siyasal savunuculukla u?ra?t?klar?ndan, dili manipüle etme ve bazen kafa kar???kl??? yaratma amac?yla kullanma konusunda güçlü bir güdüye sahiptirler.

Anybody can reach anywhere from five to 15 million people weekly making a president look like an idiot, as I did back then, or Tina Fey did with Sarah Palin... You're always preaching to the choir one way or the other.

Don't expect liberals to weigh the costs of their sweet-sounding policies.

Hyperbole is not easily dealt with. Usually, it collapses under its own weight.

You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

Trump talks like a guy at a bar in West Virginia. Trump talks like my dad sitting around the dinner table.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's traditionalist-nationalist rhetoric, which blames secularism, diversity and internationalism for the weakening of Western democracies, gives voice to the grievances that American hate groups have felt for so long.

My hope is that we revive 'monopoly' as a core piece of political rhetoric that broadly denotes dominant firms with pernicious powers.

I have more experience in the green economy than anyone in that Liberal caucus. I care about it. But we don't put all of our chips in it. With the Trudeau government, it is all about rhetoric and ideology and not about a practical approach.