Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If you paid me for work," continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
You look forward. You don't go punitive. It's very small-minded to do that. There's campaign rhetoric, and then there's stuff that you… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Most human things are full of conflict and ambivalence, not ease and simplicity. The world has grown increasingly fundamentalist, and the parameters… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild animals. The rhetoric about… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
I don't believe that Donald Trump is a racist, per se. But some of the things that he does, some of the… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I feel so lucky to have the opportunity to make the show, and that it is in alignment with what I'm interested… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“It is the time of the token woman … Paradoxically the triumph of the rhetoric of feminism has taken place exactly at… — Nina Power Copy Share Image
Donald Trump hasn't been specific, but if you go back over some of the campaign rhetoric, well, obviously, there's the bully pulpit,… — Greg Ip Copy Share Image
And do so, love, yet when they have devised What strainèd touches rhetoric can lend, Thou, truly fair, wert truly sympathized In… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Because a part of the entire [Donald] Trump experience or whatever this last six months [of 2015] has been sort of feels… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
I denounced Donald Trump for not denouncing the kind of vitriol, the kind of violence that he has perpetrated with his angry… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. And the parrots of talk radio are just sending out… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic)… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I started to read James Baldwin very early on in my life. At a time, as a young adult in the Sixties,… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Global warming alarmists invariably try to make their case by resorting to rhetoric, dogma, opinion, and emotion. The closest thing to scientific… — Walter Cunningham Copy Share Image
I think Robert F. Kennedy really, finally, cared; he realized that all of the rhetoric had to be put down into some… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A lot of the Republican rhetoric better than the Democrats'. But when they're in office, it's pretty much the same thing. It's… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
I think it would be good to get somebody a job. Right now we're in a bubble of green rhetoric and a… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Plutarch's peers were writing "rhetorics," which were these dry philosophical treatises that made really broad gestures about life and death and fate.… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a… — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes,… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
The main difference seems to be that, whereas photography still claims some sort of objectivity, digital imaging is an overtly fictional process.… — Geoffrey Batchen Copy Share Image
I'm not going to engage in that kind of hateful rhetoric anymore. I just can't use those harsh terms. I cannot and… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
There are people I know who love President Trump and think that he's the greatest thing that's ever happened to America. I… — Meghan McCain Copy Share Image
Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index - and it's at a record high.… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
We should not let those with a political agenda use London's growing population to support their anti-immigration rhetoric, and we should challenge… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their… — Lewis M. Branscomb Copy Share Image