282 Quotes About Rhetoric

Seward would inspire a cow with statesmanship if she understood our language.

He (Larry Summers) can frame arguments with such force and conviction that people think he knows more than he does.

The discipline that aims to be objective and scientific can be used to rationalize religious-ethnic prejudiced and justify imperial ambitions. Israelis, Palestinians and the evangelical imperialists of nineteenth century have all been guilty of commandeering the same events and assigning them contradictory meanings and facts.

Language is never innocent.

If nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come, nothing is more harmful than an idea which is manipulated by motivated men. Rogues and crooks have ideas. So do ordinary folks. But intellectuals are meant to be a breed apart for the same reason rocks aren't gems.

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

The rhetoric will be stepped up on trade.

They want the rhetoric to end and they want to concentrate on what they do best.

It's a war only because we've got the rhetoric of wartime.