Rhetorical Quotes

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The only tactic liberals have is to try to intimidate people into thinking that the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party is not a… — Herman Cain
The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed. — Jeff Greenfield
This is a word that is not a scientific term. This is a rhetorical tool of psychological manipulation... Because everyone knows if you dare to… — Scott Lively
For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the otherwise… — Robin Winks
Do I know what rhetorical means? — Homer
The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones. — Thornton Wilder
The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been… — Woodrow Wilson
Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far left. — Sean Hannity
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsenseâ€”nonsense upon stilts. — Jeremy Bentham
Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention? — Unknown Author
Godwin's law states that the longer any online debate goes on, the likelier it is that someone will play the Nazi card. It's the rhetorical… — John Avlon
Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all… — Donna J. Haraway
Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea… — Alexander Cockburn
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community… — Amy Waldman
O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't. — Thomas Merton
Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important… — Constance Hale
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical… — Stephen Jay Gould
When you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats, well ladies and gentleman, I'd follow the example of their nominee; don't inhale. — Ronald Reagan
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to their… — Kenny Smith
By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them — Kevin Rudd

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