282 Quotes About Rhetoric

It's amazing how little you need to keep starving people strung along.

It is quite refreshing to hear the words of service instead of the rhetoric of fearmongering.

Rhetoric work in Priceless ways. Thanks to all my ideals. Correct plantation of idea yields desired outcomes

A vague concept is infinitely more powerful than a concrete, specific one. Infinitely, because there is no telling how far its power can extend in the hands, or rather the lips, of a good speaker!

Yes, he knew that the god Loki had come out of the flames and possessed him for a while (as Fafhrd had perhaps once been possessed by the god Issek back in Lankhmar) and spoken through his lips the sort of arguments that are so convincing when voiced by a god or delivered in time of war or comparable crisis—and so empty when proclaimed by a mere mortal on any ordinary occasion.

The paths taken by strollers consist of a series of turnings and returnings that can be likened to “turns of phrase” or “stylistic devices”. A perambulatory rhetoric does exist. The art of “turning” a phrase has its counterpart in the art of “turning” course.

The perambulatory gesture … is in itself the effect of successive encounters and occasions that are constantly altering it into the advertisement of the other, the agent of whatever may surprise, cross or seduce its route. These aspects establish a rhetoric; they even define it.

What's amazing to so many of us is that the failing liberal mantras continue to persuade Americans, despite simple common sense. Will we never learn?

Dialectic, she says, describes the rational discussion between those who hold conflicting positions, to find resolution and deduce the truth through the disciplines of logic and reason. Rhetoric, meanwhile, is the art of persuasion. It makes use of invention, arrangement, delivery and style. Therefore, can the delivery and style of rhetoric take precedence over truth? Pg63