Quote by Kenneth Burke Download Open image ““Speech in its essence is not neutral.”” — Kenneth Burke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Take a step towards actualizing the very thing you are persuaded for and do not allow injustice to silence your voice.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Your voice can be made loud to speak against ungodliness and injustice and not promote it.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“In conversation we are sometimes confused by the tone of our own voice, and mislead to make assertions that do not at all correspond… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“is speech a subject's very constitution and assembly, which then makes experience possible.” — Erin Moure Copy Share Image
“I don't represent anyone's opinion. Not even my own. I'm neutral.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“True. In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Learn to silence the negative voices including your own, if need be.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends....the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use of words… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
“With my book in one hand And my drink in the other What more could I want But fame, Better health, And ten million… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives. — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents. — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations. — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image