Consideration Quote by Mary Astell

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

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

— Aristotle

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

— Plato

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

“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 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, 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

Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil.

— Martha Ronk

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

— Plato

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

— Aristotle

“How can a man who, for a significant phase of his formation, shared his master’s opposition to rhetoric have in maturity composed a masterpiece…

— Aristotle