Rhetoric Quotes

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

“Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.”

“Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.”

“Rhetoric can be easily recognized for it is delightfully sweet sounding but it is utterly void of sacrifice, which means it is utterly void of substance. Christmas is irrefutable evidence that God never engages in rhetoric.”

“The weaker the argument the louder and more frequent the rhetoric.”

“Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.”

“To ask the meaning of life is silly, with rhetorical rhetoric. Life is the meaning.”

“Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.”

“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?”

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”