Rhetoric Quotes

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.

Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

I don't get myself caught up in the rhetoric of any personal comments that are made.

There is practically no area of business where the difference between rhetoric and actuality is greater than in the handling of people.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence.

We had a sense of importance that would have led us to risk our lives for our rhetoric.

Vision is not political rhetoric.

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.

Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.

Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.

Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.

It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.

I got my degree in rhetoric.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.

I am the first to admit that I am no great orator or no person that got where I have gotten by any William Jennings Bryan technique.

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.

It's very short-sighted and even dangerous to be engaging in the kind of demagogic rhetoric that Donald has about Muslims.

The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

At some point the rhetoric runs out, and we have to ask ourselves, 'Are we simply going to standby while somebody's rhetoric is good, but their actions are so lousy?' Are we going to stand up for that?

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.

Rhetoric matters, but at the end of the day policy matters more.

I'm really aware of how feminism and feminist rhetoric has been appropriated by the right.

North Korea is a direct threat to the United States. They have been very clear in their rhetoric we don't have to wait until they have an intercont- intercontinental ballistic missile with a nuclear weapon on it to say that now it's manifested completely.

If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.

I've been a social gospel-er and a person who sees politics as a central dynamic to the encoding of religious rhetoric.

Most crises are not resolved through rhetoric. They are resolved through operations.

Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others.

There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.

My extended family is very political and very polar with each other, and it's put a bad taste in my mouth. All the rhetoric going back and forth and sort of hating on each other. So I'm not an extremely politically active person at this stage of my life.

I think we now know the limits also of intelligence and rhetoric.

I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects.

When Donald Trump was first elected, there was a lot of fear of a trade war. They listened to Trump's rhetoric on the campaign. Oh, we're going to put a 45 percent tariff on China, a 35 percent tariff on Mexico. We haven't seen any of that.