Quotes About Rhetoric

authoritarian populism.

Because the cultures of politics and journalism are largely innocent of the scientific mindset, questions with massive consequences for life and death are answered by methods that we know lead to error, such as anecdotes, headlines, rhetoric, and what engineers call HiPPO (highest-paid person's opinion).

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

But liberals love to drape themselves in decades-old glories they had nothing to do with.

In terms of the split between logic and emotion, you're always going to build airtight logical cases first and airtight emotional cases second. Why? Quite simply, by making the airtight logical case first, you satisfy your prospect's bullshit detector, which then frees them up to be moved emotionally.

Vivimos tiempos en los que la demagogia ha sustituido a lo que debe ser la política y halagar las pasiones del pueblo es moneda corriente.

contó cuál era la fórmula de su oratoria: «Generalmente comienzo con un chiste o con una historia para captar la atención de la gente: luego les cuento lo que voy a decirles, se lo digo, y después les digo lo que acabo de decirles».

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.

There are two guiding principles in the choice of words,—good use and good taste. Good use tells us whether a word is right or wrong; good taste, whether it is adapted to our purpose or not.

Horace, fecundi calices quem non fecere disertum?" He paused, and then translated. "Whom have flowing cups not made eloquent?

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

Vision is not political rhetoric.

Las únicas armas eran las palabras, por lo que no tarde en aprender a blandirlas con mucha habilidad.

There is nothing quite as destructive to the gospel of Jesus Christ as the use of language that dismisses the way Jesus talks and prays and takes up instead the rhetoric of smiling salesmanship or vicious invective.

Those who parade the rhetoric of liberation but scorn the wisdom of service do not lead people into the glorious liberty of the children of God but into a cramped and covetous squalor.

Observing that we have waged wars on poverty and drugs as well as cancer, Susan Sontag writes, "Abuse of the military metaphor may be inevitable in

When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

One of the things I hate about politicians, I shouldn't say I hate things, but one of the things I hate about politics is people who repeat the same talking point over and over and over again.

I don't think as a society, as a nation we would ever wear swastikas openly again, but aligning ourselves with the kind of rhetoric or the the the kind of language that's being used and ascribed to certain groups of people or certain religions can be repeated.

No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

And I think for some - not all - but for some Democrats, the issue of immigration is better politically if they just leave it the way it is now because they can use it against Republicans.

Republicans like to indict Democrats as anti-corporate zealots.