False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones. — William Penn Copy Share Image
“Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
If you [Donald Trump] do visit this country [UK], take time to visit the Mosques. Take time to reflect on how dangerous… — Sarah Wollaston Copy Share Image
“Leadership meant knowing how to distill complexity into a comprehensible message to reach the hearts as well as the minds of the… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Canada is the only country in the West that hasn't given in to the rhetoric of fear. The dominant rhetoric is a… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity. — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
It's very short-sighted and even dangerous to be engaging in the kind of demagogic rhetoric that Donald has about Muslims. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words.… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“He (Larry Summers) can frame arguments with such force and conviction that people think he knows more than he does.” — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We will never meet our own expectations of public education unless the federal government is willing to play a consistent, long-term role;… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public and say, 'Let's put more money… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
If you think of- of the rhetoric of - of modern Democrats, it's often so focused on government that people don't accept… — James Vance Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult,… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Trust is perhaps the most critical single building block underlying effectiveness. Without trust leaders do not have followers. Without trust, leaders are… — Judith M Bardwick Copy Share Image
It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Incidentally, I don't think there is a non-adjectival 'globalisation'. What we have now is a particular form: dominated by finance and multinational… — Doreen Massey Copy Share Image
“This explains the harsh nature of much postmodern rhetoric. The regular deployments of ad hominem, the setting up of straw men, and… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
I think what is happening is that Houthis and the Iranians have common interests, but there's very little good journalism that's been… — Safa Al Ahmad Copy Share Image
Violence has always been implied by previous US presidents: That is to say, if North Korea launched an attack, or crossed certain… — Charles K. Armstrong Copy Share Image
De-Christianizing America has been high on the progressive agenda, and, thanks to the government (especially the federal courts), it has been a… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
There may be rhetoric about the socially constructed nature of Western science, but wherever it matters, there is no alternative. There are… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image