Rhetoric Quotes

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.

What I hope we will see from [Donald] Trump very quickly is inclusive rhetoric and rhetoric that brings the temperature down and comforts people so that children feel safe going to school.

Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.

The policies on the Republican side have been much better for Hispanics, for minorities, but the rhetoric, unfortunately, has not.

We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action.

Sometimes "Yes" is rhetoric enough.

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

They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.

I think there are real possibilities of reaching out to many of the Trump voters, those who voted for Obama believing his rhetoric.

The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting that there are no grounds either for accepting or grasping ideas.

We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.

I think Donald Trump is the best person for the job. It comes back to redemption campaign rhetoric. They all say that stuff.[Barack] Obama and [Hillary] Clinton said that about each other.

The songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters.

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

There's been an instant desire to try to take some of the rhetoric that has done so well for Mr. Trump and apply it to Australian politics.

Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception.

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

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

In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance.

Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do.

The contrast between Hillary Clinton, a champion for women and families versus Donald Trump who has alienated women across the country with his offensive and insulting rhetoric, could not be clearer.

This trivializing rhetoric runs the subtle but unmistakable message: pray if you like, worship if you must, but whatever you do, do not on any account take your religion seriously.

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

[Donald] Trump met with Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto, who has in the past compared Trump's rhetoric to that of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

I just find Bobby Kennedy's short campaign for president so inspiring because his rhetoric identified what America can be like if we care about each other.

Marco Rubio is a talented young man, but record trumps rhetoric.

The law needs to be applied to everyone equally and the Home Office has previous in banning hate preachers engaging in rhetoric similar to that of [Donald] Trump.

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.

[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.

Since Shakespeare had a feel for revolutionary rhetoric, let’s all cry: “Peace, freedom and liberty!

Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts.

the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

Be a worthy worker and work will come.

Great losses are great lessons.

Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.

Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.

To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.

If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.

A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.

Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.

An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.

When wealth goes only happiness goes, when health goes even the hope goes.

If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.

Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.