Rhetoric Quotes

240 Rhetoric quotes by 205 unique authors

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
These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. — Francis Quarles
How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away by rhetoric? — Thomas Sowell
Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on.… — H. L. Mencken
Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perceptions. Philosophy is about… — Kenny Smith
"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that therefore uncritically seizes… — Kenny Smith
The quality of rhetoric emanating from the psychedelic community must improve radically. If it does not, we will forfeit the reclamation of our birthright and… — Terence McKenna
Rhetoric is not important. Actions are. — Nelson Mandela
The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories. — Thomas Szasz
Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their… — George Friedman
We cannot all ARGUE, but we can all PRAY; We cannot all be LEADERS, but we can all be PLEADERS; We cannot all be mighty… — Charles Spurgeon
President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record. — Grace Napolitano
My philosophy is that I am a friend of the children. I don't think anyone should see them as pitiable subjects or charity. That is… — Kailash Satyarthi
I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about… — Gorgias
Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric… — Paula Vogel
I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died.… — Wilma Rudolph
Ahmadinijad was stupid enbough to be a wolf in wolf's clothing, to expose his teeth and nails and alert the west. I can be a… — Hassan Rouhani
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
The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures." There is a… — Michel de Certeau
You may be right that people say: You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good,… — Karl Rove
We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Rhetoric never won a revolution yet. — Shirley Chisholm
It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric. — Gerrit Smith

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