"The use of words by human agents to……" — Kenneth Burke

"The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents."

— Kenneth Burke

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19 Quotes by Kenneth Burke

Kenneth Burke has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of…
The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.
Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew:…
Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.
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…
The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends....the basic function of rhetoric [is]…
Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality;…
Stories are equipment for living.
Dignity belongs to the conquered....
Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.
You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea,…
Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as…

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An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to… — John Ashcroft
My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I… — Jensen Ackles
The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. — Michelle Bachelet
Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which… — Michele Bachmann
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. — Walter Bagehot
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell… — Henry Adams
Nobody wanted the 'Roseanne' show. I heard from agents that there was no interest in a show about a fat… — Roseanne Barr
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. — John Adams
Satan works through human agents. — Ezra Taft Benson
I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do… — David Bowie
Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their… — Danny Boyle
I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. — David Byrne

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