Rhetoric Quotes

240 Rhetoric quotes by 205 unique authors

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction. — Vladimir Lenin
A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle of… — John Robert Seeley
The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed… — Germaine Greer
No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established by… — Michael Josephson
Mr. Obama would be a disheartening president even during a super boom, with his grim demeanor and empty rhetoric, as well as his obvious hatred… — Paul Johnson
Every president to hold office has espoused some version of Americanism - the truths that we hold self-evident, even when those truths are not always… — John Ridley
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe,… — P.J. O'Rourke
Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The west has been… — Martin Jacques
President Obama is a gifted politician. He is gifted with rhetoric virtuosity. He is gifted with the ability to lie directly to camera without blinking.… — Ben Shapiro
Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both good… — Elliott Abrams
Arab states continue to send the Palestinians gifts of extravagant rhetoric and countless Arab League resolutions - but not much cash. — Elliott Abrams
The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again. Our founding was built by people who were political philosophers, and we need to… — Dave Brat
One day, Mexico will have a leader who is nationalist not simply in rhetoric, but also in fact. — Stephen Kinzer
My mother is not a woman of ordinary culture. She knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I do. She even corrected my poems and… — Jose Rizal
I condemn all statements - made in sincerity or jest - that threaten or suggest the use of violence against the president of the United… — Paul Broun
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any… — Aristotle
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of… — Aristotle
He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either… — Pete Hamill
There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground. — Baldwin Spencer
That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old… — Michael Harrington
Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among… — John S. Tanner
So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature. — Brent Scowcroft
I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric… — Robert Teeter
On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential… — Ed Gillespie
My colleagues, while it is good that the Nation is finally focused on the critical issue of securing our ports, our rhetoric and our passion… — Allyson Schwartz

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