Rhetoric Quotes · Page 9

“When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.”

— Amit Kalantri

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

— Umberto Eco

“The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor.”

— Amit Kalantri

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.”

— Amit Kalantri

“The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Amit Kalantri

They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.

— Noam Chomsky

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

— George Orwell

Unfortunately, violent events and hate-filled rhetoric around the world provide ample opportunity for promoting religious hostility.

— Ibrahim Hooper

Arab states continue to send the Palestinians gifts of extravagant rhetoric and countless Arab League resolutions - but not much cash.

— Elliott Abrams

I'm quite confident that when you spew out hateful [anti-islam]rhetoric, you green-light people who are - who have violent and who are…

— Steve King

We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

“Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Rhetoric is communication that attempts to coordinate social action...Its goal is to influence human choices on specific matters that require immediate attention”

— Gerard Hauser

If we get too caught up in the rhetoric of meditation, we will miss the point. The point was to go beyond…

— Frederick Lenz

Inflammatory, anti-Muslim rhetoric and threatening to ban the families and friends of Muslim Americans as well as millions of Muslim business people…

— Hillary Clinton

Mitt Romney's primary season embrace of the social and economic agenda of the more rabid elements of his party doomed him, especially…

— Eliot Spitzer

Then it's very easy to point fingers at other people and use this kind of rhetoric, infestation and comparing people to rodents,…

— Christine Leunens

More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a (political)…

— Jonathan Rauch

We're at a historical juncture: A growing number of people are declaring what has been achieved over the past decades in Europe…

— Martin Schulz

I never liked the philosophy that you can have everything and be everything and that something is wrong if you don't want…

— Elaine Equi

In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one…

— William A. Henry III

Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character…

— Aristotle

To picture Roosevelt as a man at this time in his life - he felt he was old. He was 53 years…

— Geoffrey Cowan

I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented…

— Erasmus Darwin

For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug…

— Ellen Willis

"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that…

— Kenny Smith

“Grammar is like the walls and bumpers of a pinball machine. Rhetoric is like the flippers of a pinball machine. You control…

— Neal Stephenson

As in 1925, creationists are not battling for religion. They have been disowned by leading church men of all persuasions, for they…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that…

— Hasan Minhaj

“...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack…

— Adam J. Banks

Rhetoric matters, but at the end of the day policy matters more.

— Garry Kasparov

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

— Adolf Hitler

No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.

— George W. Bush

“Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.”

— Milan Kundera

“In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.”

— Amit Kalantri

One day, Mexico will have a leader who is nationalist not simply in rhetoric, but also in fact.

— Stephen Kinzer

These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”

— Amit Kalantri