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