Aristocracy Quote by Richard M. Weaver

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

— 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

“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

As the base rhetorician uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal followers of…

— Thomas Szasz

Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the…

— William Blake

Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to…

— Aristotle

“It was at this point that the transition was first made to the conception that rhetoric was a teachable skill, that it could, usually…

— Aristotle

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Do I know what rhetorical means?

— Homer

Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind…

— Michel Foucault

Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato… To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle…

— John Milton

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