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
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
What has happened in the past is a lot of good policies have been developed on paper, but you find they are… — Raila Odinga Copy Share Image
The communication has evolved to such a degree that kids under 25 can connect to each other so quickly and so immediately… — Seth Green Copy Share Image
Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans. — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
The actions of the University in my case make it abundantly clear that the Administration's rhetoric about Harvard's desire to attract and… — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
“...that out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves… — Frank Lentricchia Copy Share Image
Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety. — Stephen Young Copy Share Image
I say that now we see a lot of hateful rhetoric against Mexicans and the Latino community, but we have a very… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character… — Michael Josephson 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
Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
The diminishment of southern contests is the kind of veiled racist rhetoric that Bill Clinton deployed memorably in South Carolina in 2008,… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Broadway needs to let go of any fear that it won't succeed and take a knee. There's this rhetoric about being grateful… — Okieriete Onaodowan Copy Share Image
Here we have a case, the Swedish case, where I have never been charged with a crime, where I have already been… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The French elites' strategy of trying to defeat the Le Pens by aping their rhetoric, stealing their policies, and pandering to their… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Reagonomics - a blend of monetarism and fiscal Keynesianism swathed in classical liberal and supply-side rhetoric - is in no way going… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen.… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I'm exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Like so many before him who have ruined countries around the world, Obama has a greatly inflated idea of his own capabilities… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death. — Haddon W. Robinson 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
Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Companies understand that if their employees are sick, it's really expensive. So despite the rhetoric I hear, thank God employers are still… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If Trump's actions as President reflect his campaign rhetoric, the ACLU and other capable organizations like it will be critical for defending… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
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
It is astonishing how articulate one can become when alone and raving at a radio. Arguments and counter arguments, rhetoric and bombast… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Decades of anti-migrant rhetoric in parliament and the press has resulted in few voters having realistic ideas of the genuine level of… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image