Quotes About Rhetoric

They were virtuosos of alliteration and didn't know it.

Yes, the Führer decided that he would rule the world with words. "I will never fire a gun," he devised. "I will not have to." Still, he was not rash. Let's allow him at least that much. He was not a stupid man at all. His first plan of attack was to plant the words in as many areas of his homeland as possible.

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

jiggery pokery – which is the ancient nomadic term for doing things with words.

I came, he said. Good Lord! If there were an orator-of-the-year award, he would be in dire danger of winning it.

Dialectic is the art of intellectual fencing; and it is only when we so regard it that we can erect it into a branch of knowledge.

ten, kto wychodzi ze sporu zwyci?zc?, do?? cz?sto zawdzi?cza to nie tyle prawid?owo?ci s?du przy obronie swej tezy, ile sztuce i zr?czno?ci, z jak? to wykonywa?

The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children.

EL-FAYOUMY: Do not bait this great man, lady! He presided over the appeal of Attila the Hun when you were nothing more than a cheap shot of whiskey on your great-great-grandfather's first unpaid bar tab! JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Well said!

I like the fact of John McCain's head being severed. Like that it will fit so much more nicely up George Bush's butt!

When the form is more important than the content, when it exists to convince or dazzle or decorate or distract, then the form is not rising out of the needs of the content but is being used rhetorically; that is, to convince for its own sake. The eventual effect will be to frustrate us, because we are looking, ultimately, to be moved out of ourselves, to be able for a second to step away and see ourselves in relation to the world.

POLYHYMNIA was the Muse of hymns, of sacred music, dance, poetry, and rhetoric as well as—slightly randomly one might think—agriculture, pantomime, geometry, and meditation. I suppose today we would call her "the Muse of mindfulness.

Every Democrat says he wants to be JFK while insisting that he will do more or less what LBJ did. No Democrat would dream of saying he wanted to emulate Lyndon Johnson, because the myth is what matters most.

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skilled arguers Ã¢â'¬Â¦ are not after the truth but after arguments supporting their views.

There is a principle in philosophy and rhetoric called the principle of charity, which says that one should interpret other people's statements in their best, most reasonable form, not in the worst or most offensive way possible.

skilled arguers Ã¢â'¬Â¦ are not after the truth but after arguments supporting their views."50

It is no coincidence that the only Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to win election and then reelection combined gregariousness and oratorical skill with an almost musical emotionality. Bill Clinton knew how to charm elephants.

As Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf put it, propaganda "must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.… [P]ersistence is the first and most important

Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.

Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

El populismo exalta al líder carismático. No hay populismo sin la figura del hombre providencial que resolverá, de una buena vez y para siempre, los problemas del pueblo:

El populismo es el uso demagógico de la democracia para acabar con ella.