282 Quotes About Rhetoric

The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor.

My spouse is my shield, my spouse is my strength.

Rhetoric can be easily recognized for it is delightfully sweet sounding but it is utterly void of sacrifice, which means it is utterly void of substance. Christmas is irrefutable evidence that God never engages in rhetoric.

Psychological research has shown that prejudice adversely affects both the targets and perpetrators. Does it make sense then to enter a losing battle, one which you come out of in the end a battered and bruised loser?

Words spoken by the dead, are louder than those spoken by the living.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible

In the pursuit of greater equality in our education system, from K to PhD, technology access, print literacies, and verbal skill all collide as requirements for even basic participation in an information-based, technology-dependent economy and society.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?