Rhetoric Quotes

240 Rhetoric quotes by 205 unique authors

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. — Thomas Sowell
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. — Thomas Sowell
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. — Thomas Sowell
It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy. — Eliot Spitzer
Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover,… — Eliot Spitzer
Mitt Romney's primary season embrace of the social and economic agenda of the more rabid elements of his party doomed him, especially the shrill immigration… — Eliot Spitzer
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. — William Butler Yeats
Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult, thwarting collective action… — Evgeny Morozov
The United States tried, by depressing the clutch of diplomacy and downshifting the gearshift lever of rhetoric, to remain neutral, but it became increasingly obvious… — Dave Barry
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame… — Thomas Huxley
Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to family values are… — Susan Sontag
We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you… — Tom Stoppard
A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of… — William Faulkner
If you paid me for work," continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food in his beard,… — Richard Russo
The Sophists had this idea: Forget this idea of what's true or not—what you want to do is rhetoric; you want to be able to… — David Foster Wallace
I think people are dazzled by Obama's rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president… — Howard Zinn
but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric. — Umberto Eco
Rhetoric is no substitute for reality. — Thomas Sowell
Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric. — N.D. Wilson
Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable… — Margaret Thatcher
We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric. — Anna Deavere Smith
There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody… — Dorothy Parker
People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be… — Howard Schultz
You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself. — Lionel Shriver
What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at the… — Michael Ondaatje

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