Quotes About Rhetoric

When the sword of the tongue is drawn, the emperor thought, it inflicts deeper cuts than the sharpest blade.

Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.

I'm not sure if [Hillary Clinton] means it or not. But she says no boots on the ground. She has taken a tremendous - I mean, that's really giving strength to the enemy.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies.

Mire, mi querido amigo, sólo hay una forma de hablar bien desde la tribuna, y consiste en estar plenamente convencido, al llegar a ella, de que se es el hombre más inteligente del mundo».

Despite CIA rhetoric that gave Phoenix a sanitized, technical patina, the program soon devolved into an exercise in brutality that produced many casualties and few verifiable results.

A few words can be more effective than a lot of blades, even in such times as these.

The swamps will run out of flies," said Shudra, "before politicians run out of arguments.

Populist politics only appeals to intuitive logic, because that which is intuitive can be comprehended by the masses.

She believed that the way you speak is often more important than anything you have to say.

the way you speak is often more important than anything you have to say.

She believed that the way you speak is often more important than what you have to say.

Their assemblies had taught the Athenians how to discuss all matters openly, with arguments for and against. This was good training in learning how to think.

Once you infantilise the common political narrative, it becomes easier to mobilise the masses, and from then on you can promise them anything.

He also knew that the call to break the imaginary chains of slavery preventing the real people from reaching greatness would resonate with his supporters, regardless of the fact that it sounded absurd to those who had had the chance to become what they wanted to be. 'It's not you,' he told them. 'It's them who prevent us from being great.' He gave them something solid to hate, and they gave him their votes.

On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.

Speech finely framed delighteth the ears.

His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.

During a campaign the air is full of speeches - and vice versa.

Victory is a political fiction.