Rhetorical Quotes

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

“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?”

“That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate.”

“Rhetorical question: Did you get to where you are by accepting the status quo?I didn't.”

“Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself easily to parody: 'What is it, to speak? How can I even speak of this? Who is this "I" who speaks of speaking?”

“When God asks a question, it is always rhetorical.”

“Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.”

“Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical.”

“That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.”

“Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.”