Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Rhetoric makes use of nature’s secrets in the same way as painters who try to imitate it: their most beautiful work is… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
ISIS is a terrorist entity whose barbarities have been condemned by all those who value our common humanity. In the current political… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the end, for all of Obama's grand rhetoric on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, history has doomed him to preside… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
I guess if you got elected on a bumper sticker slogan you didn't really mean, it makes perfect sense to try to… — Nancy Mace Copy Share Image
The sorts of sectors which feature so largely in the [Donald] Trump program, and its rhetoric, account now for perhaps only about… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ...… — Plato Copy Share Image
I've been a social gospel-er and a person who sees politics as a central dynamic to the encoding of religious rhetoric. — Michael Eric Dyson 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
Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came… — Chris Chocola Copy Share Image
The United States tried, by depressing the clutch of diplomacy and downshifting the gearshift lever of rhetoric, to remain neutral, but it… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
We have a lot of rhetoric today about "high rigor" and you often hear terms like that thrown about when discussing the… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization,… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
“How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these… — Allen Boyd Copy Share Image
I've heard a lot of nasty rhetoric about the president. We're going to kick your rear end out of the White House… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Today, it is imperative to end this hysteria, to refute the rhetoric of the Cold War and to accept the obvious fact:… — Vladimir Putin 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
We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
