“Seward would inspire a cow with statesmanship if she understood our language.” — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a… — Plato Copy Share Image
The law needs to be applied to everyone equally and the Home Office has previous in banning hate preachers engaging in rhetoric… — Tulip Siddiq Copy Share Image
[The rhetoric] is trying to avoid [the truth that ] the U.N. formally found that the whole thing is illegal, never even… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
I don't see that there is a credible threat for American action - the rhetoric of the U.S. President is too vague,… — Tzachi Hanegbi Copy Share Image
I would argue that security and liberty, security and privacy are not actually opposing. The only place those can be oppositional is… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to… — J. D. Vance 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
Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his positions to the satisfaction of our… — Joe Eszterhas 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 crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
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. — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
Objective truth itself is sometimes often seen as a right wing Republican-Christian plot to take over the government (though the rhetoric is… — Peter Kreeft 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
Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“The words of the Greeks are born on their lips, but those of the Romans in their hearts.” — Cato Copy Share Image
I really deplore the tone of his campaign and the inflammatory rhetoric that he is using to divide people. I don`t know… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perceptions.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I don't believe that using inflammatory rhetoric on either side of a debate is productive. — Matt Rosendale Copy Share Image
The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image