Quotes About Rhetoric

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

I don't think the British or American governments really want to fight the Islamic State. They just want to look as if they are doing so.

We defeated communist Japan.

Hyperbole has been part of elections since the days of John Adams, and there's nobody better than Joe Biden to give us a little hyperbole, as we all know.

To join in the political fray, I don't think it convinces anyone. It just becomes a talking point on CNN.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

sejarah menjadikan orang bijaksana, puisi menjadikan orang fasih lidah, matematika menjadikan orang cerdik, filsafat menyebabkan orang berpikir dalam, moral menjadikan orang bersikap sungguh-sungguh, logika dan ilmu berpidato menjadikan orang berani mengeluarkan pendapat.

Kebijaksanaan dalam berbicara lebih berharga daripada kefasihan.

habit of speaking in paragraphs.

that out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art.

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

It would be agreeable to conclude this book with a cheery fanfare about science closing in, slowly but surely, on the ultimate mystery; but the time for rosy rhetoric is not yet at hand. The orign of life appear to me as incomprehensible as ever, a matter for wonder but not for explication.

It is commonly thought with criminal flippancy that to politicize the masses means from time to time haranguing them with a major political speech.

To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice -- and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow.

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Philosophy? What good is that?" Isn't it the art of saying nothing with as many words as possible?

Jasnah didn't want to merely prove her points. She wanted to drive them right into your skull, with a flourish and a pithy epigram.

somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Words are important," Gavilar said. "Much more than you give them credit for being." "Perhaps," Dalinar said. "But if they were all-powerful, you wouldn't need my sword, would you?" "Perhaps. I can't help feeling words would be enough, if only I knew the right ones to say.

No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world.

What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study.