Eloquence Quote by Kenneth Burke

If something's public then it seems like the important thing is the person in that public. And the notion of rhetoric. I went to…

— Vito Acconci

First, in your sermons, use your logic, and then your rhetoric; Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no…

— John Selden

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

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

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

“Accordingly, postmodernism recasts the nature of rhetoric: Rhetoric is persuasion in the absence of cognition.”

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

I can only hope that the Democrats do tone down the rhetoric. The rhetoric has been outrageous: The finger-pointing, the tone, the angst, and…

— Chris Collins

Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry of ancient…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

— Aristotle

I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and…

— Gorgias

Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain…

— Blaise Pascal

What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.

— John Stott

[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political…

— Ed Crane

It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations…

— William Manchester

“What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study.”

— Henry David Thoreau