Rhetoric Quotes - Page 2

I got my degree in rhetoric.

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

Do I know what rhetorical means?

The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of things that's in the photograph - a kind of rhetorical device or rhetorical strategy. It's always felt very natural to me, because I want a person to end up thinking about the world, and to think about it in a way that is transformed by the experience of art.

rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.

Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far left.

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

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

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

It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called "barbarism" and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.

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

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

We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.

We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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