Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience. Votes: 3
Paul GettyDiscourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not. Votes: 3
Samuel R. DelanyWe make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. Votes: 3
William Butler YeatsSome people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled. Votes: 2
Samuel JohnsonThere is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones. Votes: 2
William PennFreedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. Votes: 2
Thomas SowellWhat we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology. Votes: 1
Kamala HarrisThere comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground. Votes: 1
Baldwin SpencerMost crises are not resolved through rhetoric. They are resolved through operations. Votes: 0
Eric DezenhallOur civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyI'm hearing echoes of Bill Clinton, circa 1996, in President Obama's reelection rhetoric. Votes: 0
Ron FournierWe should always measure a government's environmental rhetoric against its environmental record Votes: 0
John KeyLove's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words. Votes: 0
Christian Nestell BoveeIf rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants. Votes: 0
T.K. NaliakaMore scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better. Votes: 0
Wen JiabaoThey [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed. Votes: 0
Noam ChomskyFalse rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction. Votes: 0
Vladimir LeninThe voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. Votes: 0
Francis QuarlesLike a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation. Votes: 0
Philip MassingerThe songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters. Votes: 0
Peter YarrowI'm really aware of how feminism and feminist rhetoric has been appropriated by the right. Votes: 0
Jessica ValentiThe first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity. Votes: 0
Richard WhatelyPresident Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record. Votes: 0
Grace NapolitanoTo label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears. Votes: 0
Shirley ChisholmWherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning. Votes: 0
Kenneth BurkeI think in the heat of emotions, some rhetoric is said that is a little explosive. Votes: 0
Tommy ThompsonI don't get myself caught up in the rhetoric of any personal comments that are made. Votes: 0
Roger GoodellEnjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence. Votes: 0
John MiltonI think Donald Trump is trying to use populist rhetoric to cover up a right-wing agenda. Votes: 0
Charles SchumerThe rhetoric of hate and binarisms pervades the politics of the "Third-World" and of the West. Votes: 0
Nyla Ali KhanThe difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children. Votes: 0
Audre LordeIt's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy. Votes: 0
Eliot SpitzerWe had a sense of importance that would have led us to risk our lives for our rhetoric. Votes: 0
Jerry RubinOne day, Mexico will have a leader who is nationalist not simply in rhetoric, but also in fact. Votes: 0
Stephen KinzerAssuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit. Votes: 0
Alice MeynellOur mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil. Votes: 0
Martha Ronk