Best 204 quotes in «rhetoric quotes» category

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric.

I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Israel deserves America's friendship in reality - not just in rhetoric.

I'm exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance.

I'm really aware of how feminism and feminist rhetoric has been appropriated by the right.

Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.

North Korea is a direct threat to the United States. They have been very clear in their rhetoric we don't have to wait until they have an intercont- intercontinental ballistic missile with a nuclear weapon on it to say that now it's manifested completely.

Most crises are not resolved through rhetoric. They are resolved through operations.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action.

Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.

The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action.

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.

The rhetoric of hate and binarisms pervades the politics of the "Third-World" and of the West.

The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes

The sorts of sectors which feature so largely in the [Donald] Trump program, and its rhetoric, account now for perhaps only about 15 percent of the American work force.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

White House is ranting up its rhetoric for Republicans, using wild words to attack them over the budget standoff.

We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.

Again, it is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs. And if it be objected that one who uses such power of speech unjustly might do great harm, that is a charge which may be made in common against all good things except virtue, and above all against the things that are most useful, as strength, health, wealth, generalship. A man can confer the greatest of benefits by a right use of these, and inflict the greatest of injuries by using them wrongly.

A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.

A book is an experiment, and as with all experiments, there is a sense of uncertainty about how it will turn out.

A good swordsman is more important than a good sword.

Action achieves ambition.

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...

An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.

An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.

And, substantially they hope to supplant the “disciplining of the higher faculty of the imagination” by what they call “education for democracy.” ... The very banality of the expression helps to ensure its triumph. Who could be against education? Who could be against democracy? Yet the phrase begs two questions: What do you mean by “education”? And what do you mean by “democracy”? The school of Dewey has long been fond of capturing words and turning them to their own purposes: they tried hard to capture “humanism”, and even laid siege to “religion” Now I am convinced that if, by “education,” the champions of this slogan mean merely recreation, socialization, and a kind of custodial jurisdiction over young people, then they are deliberately perverting a word with a reasonably distinct historical meaning and making it into what Mr. Richard Weaver, in his book, "Ethics of Rhetoric”, calls a "god-term"—that is, a charismatic expression drained dry of any objective significance, but remaining an empty symbol intended to win unthinking applause

An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.

Any girl with a grin never looks grim.

Anything which you have in profusion is poison

A true professional not only follows but loves the processes, policies and principles set by his profession.

Analogy and probability are not bedrock; they are lifeboats in an ocean of doubt, and sometimes they founder. So rhetoric tends to the passionate:we argue, not with surety, but as the shipwrecked clinging to the only thing they have.

Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.

An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.

Another Mexican American in another class, approaches Victor after class, carrying his copy of Fahrenheit 451, required reading for the course. The student doesn't understand the reference to a salon. Victor explains that this is just another word for the living room. No understanding in the student's eyes. He tries Spanish: la salon. Still nothing. The student has grown up as a migrant worker. And Victor remembers the white student who had been in his class a quarter ago, who had written about not understanding racism, that there was none where he had grown up, in Wennatchee, that he has played with the children of his father's migrant workers without there being any hostility. His father's workers. Property. Property that doesn't know of living rooms. And Victor thought of what the man from Wennatchee knew, what the ROTC Mexican American knew, what the migrant worker knew. And he thought of getting up the next morning to go with Serena to St. Mary's for cheese and butter. And he knew there was something he was not doing in his composition classrooms.

A poor, who hates power, once become powerful, hates poor.

A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.

A professional who doesn't deliver as committed is not just lazy, he is a liar.

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

.. a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile.

A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.

basic rule of negotiation is to know what you want, what you need to walk away with in order to be whole.