What is the best Rhetoric quote?

"I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue." - Oscar Wilde

What are some Rhetoric quotes?

"Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?" - Peter Hitchens "As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could begin. This imitation seemed to be an external compulsion. Little children didn’t have it. It seemed to come later on, possibly as a result of school itself. That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. If you don’t imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A’s. Originality on the other hand could get you anything – from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it." - Robert M. Pirsig "We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric." - Anna Deavere Smith

What are some short Rhetoric quotes?

"One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms." - H.L. Mencken "History never repeats itself, historians do." - Lee Benson ".. a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile." - Mark Haddon

What is good short Rhetoric quote?

"What makes a man a 'sophist' is not his faculty, but his moral purpose. (1355b 17)" - Aristotle

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Tell someone to do something, and you change their life–for a day; tell someone a story and you change their life.

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Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.

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Must, never, must avoid, must guard: the minatory commands came the eleven times (from the departing Eisenhower). In contrast, Kennedy's rhetoric on January 20 with a cascade of permissions: the word "let" rang out 14 times.

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Ideas" in politics are often intuition fancy dress.

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At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.

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Greeley knew no language but his, but of that, he possessed a most extraordinary mastery. An employee

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Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.

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One can indeed try to obtain a particular result either by the use of violence or by speech aimed at securing the adherence of minds. It is in terms of this alternative that the opposition between spiritual freedom and constraint is most clearly seen. The use of argumentation implies that one has renounced resorting to force alone, that value is attached to gaining the adherence of one's interlocutor by means of reasoned persuasion, and that one is not regarding him as an object, but appealing to his free judgment. Recourse to argumentation assumes the establishment of a community of minds, which, while it lasts, excludes the use of violence.

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RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds and properly dispose our listeners to a pain they have never dreamed of. The context of what can be known establishes that love and indifference are forms of language, but the wise addition of punctuation allows us to believe that there are other harms - the dash gives the reader the clear signal they are coming.

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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

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Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix.

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

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Inspiring words are potent, and sometimes dangerous, things. They can inspire idiots and devils as well as great man.

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

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In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.

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he knew, unlike most reporters, how to use pauses and the absence of words as effectively as the words themselves.

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Language has an ideological agenda that is apt to be hidden from view.

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He was a stylist, not a thinker. He spent time trying to say things in as complicated a way as possible.

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Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?

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In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them.

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

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There is a presumption in favor of every existing institution. Many of these (we will suppose the majority) may be susceptible of alteration for the better; but still the "Burden of proof" lies with him who proposes an alteration; simply, on the ground that since a change is not a good in itself, he who demands a change should show cause for it. No one is called on . . . to defend an existing institution, till some argument is adduced against it; and that argument ought in fairness to prove, not merely an actual inconvenience, but the possibility of a change for the better.

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Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream.

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There is nothing quite as destructive to the gospel of Jesus Christ as the use of language that dismisses the way Jesus talks and prays and takes up instead the rhetoric of smiling salesmanship or vicious invective.

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History never repeats itself, historians do.

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Language construction will BREED a mythology. J.R.R. Tolkien

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Lewis had developed a trademark style, slow enough for note taking, loud enough to rouse the dullest listener, straightforward, abundantly furnished with quotations, and lavish in wit.

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J.R.R. Tolkien, said a student, "could turn a lecture room into a mead hall in which he was the bard and we were the feasting, listening guests.

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Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

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Facts seemed to run around and rattle in his head like dried peas, and then suddenly to form a convincing pattern.

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In all societies, public rhetoric involves some measure of lying, and history -- political history and art history -- is made when someone effectively confronts the lie. But in really scary societies all public conversation is an exercise in using words to mean their opposites -- in describing the brave as traitorous, the weak as frightening, and the good as bad -- and confronting these lies is the most scary and lonely thing a person can do.

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Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable--all communication is rhetoric in action.

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How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing.

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

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The author's alliterative description of politics since the 1960 presidential debates: "Government by Gotcha".

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John F. Kennedy responded, as he often did when at his best, skillfully mixing dollops of wit with, self-deprecation, and the principle of not-really-going-near-the-question.

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