Birth Quote by Albert Camus

Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity…

— Aristotle

“It was at this point that the transition was first made to the conception that rhetoric was a teachable skill, that it could, usually…

— Aristotle

“How can a man who, for a significant phase of his formation, shared his master’s opposition to rhetoric have in maturity composed a masterpiece…

— Aristotle

“Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.”

— Clarence Darrow

“Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable--all communication is rhetoric in action.”

— Leonard Koren

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too…

— Anonymous

“Concealing, therefore, their pestilent doctrine by their specious and flattering discourse, they circumvent the more simple-minded and such as are open to fraud, nor…

— Pope Alexander I of Alexandria

The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes

— Amy Waldman

Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language…

— Kenneth Burke

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would…

— Jonathan Swift

Do I know what rhetorical means?

— Homer

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of…

— Mary Astell