Quotes About Rhetoric

In fact, the causes of conflict are usually greed, envy, and ambition, but in an effort to sanitize them, these self-serving emotions have often been cloaked in religious rhetoric.

An election year in the U.S., as if you needed to be reminded, the vituperative tunes of the Ayn Rand Marching Band bleating from the airwaves.

And this is a small point by comparison, but why do Republicans persist in substituting Democrat, with its rat ending, when Democratic would be correct? Because they want us to know, in every word they speak, how much they hold us in contempt. In my lifetime, the Republicans have never accepted a Democratic president as legitimate, no matter how many people vote for him [or her.])

Reductio ad Hitlerum." Claire couldn't stop quoting Paul. "It's when you compare someone to Hitler to win an argument.

En resumen, lo que en 1848 tal vez impresionara a un lector sin compromisos como retórica revolucionaria -o, a lo sumo, como una predicción creíble- puede hoy leerse como una concisa caracterización del capitalismo de fines del siglo XX.

Parliament is a rumor mill staffed by trough-fed clods who abuse the tongue of their birth every time they open their mouths. They all gabble at once and confuse one another mightily, and when this confusion is committed to paper they refer to it as 'policy.

The man who was speaking had a degree in jargon and a doctorate in nonsense.

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?

The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.

A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.

Hitler is a medicine man type of leader.

Bernie Sanders is a crazy man.