It is this capacity for relentless self-criticism that should be - everywhere - the true measure of intellectual freedom and cosmopolitanism, not… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
The view I take is that while I'm proud to live in a free and prosperous country, I do believe American is… — Mindy Finn Copy Share Image
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The sole object of Logic is the guidance of one's own thoughts: the communication of those thoughts to others falls under the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The high-flying rhetoric of 'Making America Great Again' frankly appeals to me. It appeals to many people. But you've got to back… — Jeff Fortenberry Copy Share Image
The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again. Our founding was built by people who were political philosophers, and… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
I find it deeply disturbing that someone wanting to be president of the United States would talk the way Donald Trump talks,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy was not Obamacare but… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
We don't understand what photography is doing. We don't understand the power of its rhetoric. We don't understand why the Provoke photographers… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
Remarkably, [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein was reading her statement. So her mare's-nest of inapposite words and unclear thoughts cannot be excused as symptoms… — George Will Copy Share Image
I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
As a political activist you run the risk of having to settle for one compromise or another in order to achieve your… — Josephine Meckseper Copy Share Image
You may be right that people say: You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people… — Zell Miller Copy Share Image
I think the people marching in L.A., on college campuses around the country, aren't marching simply because Trump was a Republican president… — John S. Dickerson Copy Share Image
We live in the greatest country in the world, but the tone and destructive rhetoric across the ideological spectrum is tearing our… — Mike Braun Copy Share Image
The racist rhetoric that extends all the way to the top of the AfD shows that one must assume that an attitude… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a propensity for rhetoric. In the first case, habits have… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
... the thing that's happening today vis-á-vis computer imaging, vis-á-vis alteration, is that it no longer needs to be based on the… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
One of the principles that we operate on in this country is that leaders are held accountable. The simple truth is that… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them and not just say, 'Oh they're all… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I… — Viktor Yanukovych Copy Share Image
I believe President Trump is more reasonable than he is generally perceived. President Trump uses strong rhetoric toward North Korea, but during… — Moon Jae-in Copy Share Image
The rhetoric is pretending, constantly pretending that I have been charged with a crime, and never mentioning that I have been already… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I worry that I may have overstated the impact of Civil War on the utopians. By the time the Civil War comes,… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There are also people that still choose to support racist rhetoric because they feel white dominance in America is slipping through their… — Christian Picciolini Copy Share Image
“the judge Don Achille speaks up, with sly and devastating irony, saying that the whole history of mankind is the history of… — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh, they're all… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
I'm talking about the presidential nominee on the Democratic side. Hillary Clinton is corrupt. And she's lied. And she's under another criminal… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
As I travel across Illinois and talk with people, and as others reach out to my office desperate for help, I am… — Lisa Madigan Copy Share Image
On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new… — Ed Gillespie Copy Share Image
For the first ten years, Vladimir Putin was constructing his power structure, and now he's defending it. He's retrenching, mobilizing a shrinking… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I have nothing to fear from serious social studies of science, and I hope that my philosophy will help progressive science policies… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures."… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
In every conflict, some rhetoric and posturing, so we should take that aside. When facts is that everybody is exhausted and that… — Staffan de Mistura Copy Share Image
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