Rhetoric Quotes

240 Rhetoric quotes by 205 unique authors

More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better. — Wen Jiabao
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull… — Christian Nestell Bovee
All s, like all human beings, get many things wrong. Ronald Reagan's extraordinary achievement as of the U.S. was to succeed in getting the two… — Andrew Sullivan
It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of proverbs. In the… — Desiderius Erasmus
I say a vote for the Democrats or Republicans is the ONLY wasted vote.... By buying into the rhetoric that there are only two parties… — Carla Howell
The problem: Democrats have to drop their stupid class-warfare rhetoric. With 74 million Americans owning stock in one form or another, anything which helps them… — Dick Morris
[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned… — William Safire
The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a… — Winston Churchill
Rhetoric paints with a broad brush. — George Carlin
Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life. — Joseph Wood Krutch
Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled. — Samuel Johnson
To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a… — Primo Levi
The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger… — Jean Genet
The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet… — Milton Friedman
My strong point is not rhetoric , it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises - those things that create the glamour and the excitement that… — Richard M. Nixon
Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning variety-of syntax, spelling,… — Israel Shenker
So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have… — John Podesta
Obama had reached out to the business community, they just haven't liked all of his decisions and some of his rhetoric. But generally, I think… — David Rubenstein
If we get too caught up in the rhetoric of meditation, we will miss the point. The point was to go beyond rhetoric. — Frederick Lenz
The rhetoric on the Hill is getting very heated and it's getting quite dangerous. The gun is at the head of the American economy and… — Peter Welch
I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against… — Viktor Yanukovych
It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a… — William Manchester
Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can be rationally directed… — Timothy Leary

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