Rhetoric Quotes

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

How many roads must a man walk down.. Before you can call him a Man.

If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?

What have the Romans ever done for us?

Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour an serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism.

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.

All rhetorical questions are accusations.

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

The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.

Both India and Pakistan have a long history of deploying rhetorical strategies to skirt the issue of plebiscite or complete secession of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. When feeling particularly belligerent Pakistan cries itself hoarse declaring the legitimacy of plebiscite held under United Nations auspices in J & K; India responds just as aggressively by demanding the complete withdrawal of Pakistani troops from the territory of pre-partition J & K; or, in a moment of neighborly solicitude, for conversion of the LOC to a permanent International border.

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

Vision is not political rhetoric.

Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.

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

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

Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.

All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.

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