Convinced Quote by Deena Metzger

Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by…

— Ray Comfort

The managerial class has forced on us a public language that makes no sense

— Don Watson

At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse -…

— David Puttnam

“The public talk -- and injuriously! -- Well! are you ignorant of the little importance of such talk? -- The public speak! -- It…

— Joseph Boruwlaski

“To most of the general public, language comes down less to wonder than a rather censorious bifurcated sentiment – namely, that the vast majority…

— Robert Lane Greene

We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the…

— Chinua Achebe

“The point in all this is that language is a handy whipping boy to summon and belabor when we have failed in some serious…

— Chinua Achebe

Language is butchered by the media

— Don Watson

Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words…

— John Berger

“But language is malleable, and it is not always on the side of truth. This is something every writer knows. Words make and unmake…

— Carolina De Robertis

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental…

— Michael E. Mann

“Comfort with an art form that uses language comes because we all own it, to one degree or another. Words come from flesh and…

— Dan Fox