Action Quote by Kenneth Burke

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

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of…

— Aristotle

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing…

— Aristotle

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 design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of…

— Mary Astell

“Rhetoric is communication that attempts to coordinate social action...Its goal is to influence human choices on specific matters that require immediate attention”

— Gerard Hauser

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

— Plato

Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity…

— Aristotle

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

— Gerrit Smith

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would…

— Jonathan Swift

Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so…

— Plato

Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to…

— Aristotle