Rhetorical Quote by Mario Cuomo Download Open image “There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.” — Mario Cuomo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Rhetorical Something Ugly Violence
Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We would naturally prefer not to reckon with the worst of what people do or say on the margins, but we have to. Especially… — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent. — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
Violence never quashed violence because if you're equipped to do violence then you'll continue that passage. Let's say Nazis, if Nazis they be, have… — Penny Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Speech is not violence. The Left conflates the two in order to justify its own violent reactions to differing points of view. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Violence can behave like a disease. That insight gives a different frame of reference that is designed to take the judgment out of it,… — Steven James Copy Share Image
There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community. — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
We believe in a government that is characterized by fairness and reasonableness, a reasonableness that goes beyond labels, that doesn't distort or promise to… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
The biggest aggravation in the Arab world, the biggest reason for their anger toward us and the creation of those suicide terrorists, is Israel… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided. — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
My favorite thought about Abraham Lincoln is he believed in two things: loving one another and working together to make this world better. — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
9/11 occurs, and you're going to rebuild, and after awhile, the memory will be there, but there will be something new there, and different,… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
I had not even thought of running for president until one day in 1991, at a small fund-raiser, completely unanticipated, someone stood up and… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or as anything… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of things that's… — Frank Gohlke Copy Share Image
“...if Clinton's answers come off as well-intended lectures, Obama is offering soaring sermons and generational opportunity. In 1960, the articulate Adlai Stevenson compared his… — E.J. Dionne Jr Copy Share Image
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well (perhaps indispensably)… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The case for Brexit was made on rhetorical flourishes and promises and bluster. A lot of promises on which people voted have turned out… — Jo Johnson Copy Share Image
Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview. — David Roochnik Copy Share Image
Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two contradictory sides… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist yammering about… — George Weigel Copy Share Image