Best Rhetoric Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 10

“Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.”

Pieces Glorious Rhetoric Declaration

Author:Russell Baker

“Trust is perhaps the most critical single building block underlying effectiveness. Without trust leaders do not have followers. Without trust, leaders are impotent despite great rhetoric or splendid ideas. Trust rests on the belief among followers that the leader is transparent: What you see is what there is. Trust means followers believe there is no duplicity; no manipulation just to satisfy the leader's ego. Very simply: The effective leader is transparent; that's why that person is trusted.”

Believe Mean Belief Leader Building Ego Block Manipulation Trusted Rhetoric Trust Me Without Trust

Author:Judith M Bardwick

“As a political activist you run the risk of having to settle for one compromise or another in order to achieve your goals. Artists face the obvious accusation of elitism. The fundamental principle of my work is that it critiques capitalism in very specific ways. I am not interested in generalized political rhetoric. Instead of "aestheticizing" political issues, I try to challenge ingrained perspectives.”

Trying Running Political Artist Goal Challenges Risk Achieve Perspective Capitalism Obvious Compromise Settling Activist Not Interested Rhetoric Critique Accusation Elitism

Author:Josephine Meckseper

“Violence has always been implied by previous US presidents: That is to say, if North Korea launched an attack, or crossed certain red lines, they would be met by devastating force. And this has been said even by people in the Obama administration very recently. But the kind of rhetoric that Trump is using is different, and I think probably not helpful, because it just provokes the North Koreans to ratchet up their rhetoric as well. At this point, it seems that we urgently need calmer heads on both sides, and we're not getting that.”

People Thinking Kind Different President Violence Helpful Rhetoric Provoking North Korea Korean Us President North Korean

Author:Charles K. Armstrong

“If you're a human being, you'd have to be terrified. The impunity ... That these guys can sit on a TV show and just chat in a relaxed way about killing people like Julian Assange. They're joking, but at the same time, it's a vicious kind of rhetoric. The degree of enmity and the show of power and force against Assange must have terrified him. He was prepared to be paranoid when he was young - when nobody was actually after him. But this easy kind of vitriol and hatred that you now see as part of common discourse, it's become part and parcel of our everyday chatter.”

People Kind Guy Easy Common Hatred Killing Everyday Rhetoric Paranoid Parcel

Author:Jeremy Scahill

“And we need a president who is a uniter, not a divider; who can lower the temperature, not raise the temperature. And I wish President Trump would spend more time trying to go beyond his immediate base to reach people, and use the presidential microphone to try to bring people together, instead of the rhetoric that seems to divide us.”

People Trying Together Wish President Presidential Rhetoric

Author:Jeh Johnson

“The North Korean regime is extremely fiery, extremely insecure, sometimes hysterical. And when you're around somebody who's screaming and unstable, the last thing you want to do is add to the instability with your own unstable, hysterical rhetoric.”

Sometimes Rhetoric Insecure North Korea Korean Instability Hysterical North Korean

Author:David Brooks

“The racist rhetoric that extends all the way to the top of the AfD shows that one must assume that an attitude is prevalent - not just in the grassroots, but also among party leadership - that is not consistent with the basic values reflected in our constitution.”

Values Party Attitude Constitution Assuming Consistent Racist Rhetoric

Author:Martin Schulz

“My extended family is very political and very polar with each other, and it's put a bad taste in my mouth. All the rhetoric going back and forth and sort of hating on each other. So I'm not an extremely politically active person at this stage of my life.”

Political Hate Rhetoric Extended Family

Author:James Mercer

“We don't understand what photography is doing. We don't understand the power of its rhetoric. We don't understand why the Provoke photographers showed Tokyo city as a ghastly and alien city when it was really going through this period of mega-capitalist growth. It's a very, very, very powerful force, the photograph. People ask me why it has such an ability to captivate us. And I just don't know.”

People Growth Ability Powerful Photography Photographer Photograph Aliens Ask Me Rhetoric Provoking Very Powerful

Author:Stuart Franklin

“Geopolitics needs not just rhetoric, not just certain instincts, not just political skillful manipulation; it needs vision and what the Germans call erdung - you have to be connected to the ground always. You cannot float on your wishful thinking and hope that some miracles will become reality.”

Thinking Reality Political Vision Miracle Instinct Manipulation Rhetoric Wishful Thinking

Author:Ehud Barak

“I am a writer who is definitely working with a specific language and more than English, that language is American. And I work very much in idiom and am very interested in the play of different kinds of rhetoric, whether it is the more high-flown stuff that reeks of age. I love to juxtapose something like that with something more current or urgent. I am always interested not in America by itself, but America as an idea and how that idea has changed over time, in the eyes of the rest of the world and in the eyes of Americans.”

World Kind Different Eye Age Language Changed Different Kinds Rhetoric Idiom

Author:Sam Lipsyte

“For the first ten years, Vladimir Putin was constructing his power structure, and now he's defending it. He's retrenching, mobilizing a shrinking constituency, constructing an enemy that's really scary. It's war. And when you look at the anti-gay campaign, it's a classic case of war rhetoric: demonstrating an immediate and extreme danger.”

War Enemy Danger Scary Classic Rhetoric Really Scary

Author:Masha Gessen

“I am not a difficult man by any stretch, and I'm saying that with a full and honest inventory going on. I'm not. And I'm not angry on stage. There is a heightening. There is an intensification of the feelings on stage in order to let them carry the room. There is a theatricality about it. The whole thing is oratory, so there's persuasion involved. There's the art of rhetoric involved. And so, with hyperbole and with the desire to really punch the thing home, some of it reads a little more angry.”

Men Art Feelings Home Desire Difficult Honest Rhetoric Persuasion Hyperbole

Author:George Carlin

“If you think of- of the rhetoric of - of modern Democrats, it's often so focused on government that people don't accept - I think a lot of those - a lot of folks on the left don't appreciate that - that people don't want a handout. They don't want government support and they don't, from the right, want people to talk about the noble entrepreneur.”

People Thinking Accepting Support Modern Appreciate Entrepreneur Democrat Focused Rhetoric

Author:James Vance

“I think what is happening is that Houthis and the Iranians have common interests, but there's very little good journalism that's been done to uncover the true extent of that relationship between the Houthis and Iran. But, obviously, I do think that they - they benefit from the rhetoric of the Houthis on the ground. But, also, they do have a connection, but not to the extent that is being covered in the media at the moment by describing them as a Shia militia backed by Iran. I think that's an overstatement.”

Thinking Done Moments Interest Common Journalism Rhetoric

Author:Safa Al Ahmad

“Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.”

Years Wells Has Beens Deals Teacher Teaching Politician Profession Treated Being True Contempt Mediocrity Rhetoric Reckless Demoralized Teaching Profession

Author:Jonathan Kozol

“When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the press of reality becomes irresistible. By necessity, it adopts some of the policies it had once denounced. And a new national consensus is born.”

Reality Jobs Easy Born Party Policy Presses Opposition Rhetoric Consensus Irresistible

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.”

Persons Matter Action Political Differences Environment Rhetoric Disturbed Explosives Political Environment

Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.”

Order Social Moral Effects Birth Crisis Progressive Rhetoric Breakdown Presenting Concealing

Author:Christopher Lasch

“President Obama's version of America is a divided one - pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and social status. His policies have failed! We are not better off than we were 4 years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or campaign ad can change that.”

Years America Social President Levels Policy Years Ago Gender Campaigns Income Versions Divided President Obama Ads Rhetoric Better Off Bumper Sticker Bumper Sticker Social Status Campaign Ads

Author:Mia Love

“If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up.”

Ifs Enough House Left White Behinds Listening Birth Wake Up Senses White House Progressive Parenthood Rhetoric Left Behind Benevolence Birth Control Planned Parenthood Anesthetics

Author:Michelle Malkin

“To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self-inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth, or heal our sick planet, is evidence of our immense capacity for self delusion. Rather, we need to protect ourselves from ourselves.”

“I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.”

Years Film Criticism Filled Fancy Professors Despise Pants Academic Rhetoric Phony Jargon Film Criticism

Author:Camille Paglia

“Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.”

Political Left Guilty Rhetoric Political Rhetoric

Author:John Podhoretz

“Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.”

Political Confusion Rhetoric Political Rhetoric

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for inter-communal relations, political rhetoric and policies at the local, regional, national and international level.”

Political Levels Policy Conflict Consequence Relation Profound International Locals Tension Phenomenon Rhetoric Mistrust Political Rhetoric

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index - and it's at a record high. It's going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - it's going to take a new president.”

Real Home Today President Records Misery Rhetoric Unemployment Bankruptcy Back To Work Foreclosure

Author:Mitt Romney

“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.”

Ifs Bigs Action Political Politics Nations Poor Substitutes Trusted Rhetoric Great Nations

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.”

Trying Hard Bigs Government President Hurt Policy Higher Taxes President Obama Regulation Rhetoric Obamacare Big Government

Author:Marco Rubio

“We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.”

Solutions Rhetoric Partisans Bipartisan

Author:Paul Ryan

“Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.”

Power Rhetoric Persuasive

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”

Too Much Blood Cost Propaganda Agony Rhetoric Agonizing

Book:Knowledge And Decisions

Source: Knowledge And Decisions

“It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.”

Politics Sound Policy Medicine Rhetoric

Author:Eliot Spitzer

“Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding.”

Should Long Term Levels Higher Taxes Clinton Investment Rate Proof Eras Long Term Wealthy Fairness Rhetoric Deficit Reduction

Author:Eliot Spitzer

“Mitt Romney's primary season embrace of the social and economic agenda of the more rabid elements of his party doomed him, especially the shrill immigration rhetoric and the harshly insensitive theory that no additional sacrifice or contribution should be sought from those at the top.”

Should Social Party Sacrifice Economic Theory Elements Seasons Embrace Immigration Primaries Contribution Agendas Rhetoric Doomed Romney Insensitive

Author:Eliot Spitzer

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

Poetry Poet Argument Rhetoric Quarrels Make Out

Author:William Butler Yeats

“Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult, thwarting collective action under the heavy pressure of never-ending internal debate.”

Action Social Difficult Media Internet Pressure Heavy Social Media Contrary Debate Internals Collectives Rhetoric Participation Never Ending Utopian Deliberation Collective Action

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“The United States tried, by depressing the clutch of diplomacy and downshifting the gearshift lever of rhetoric, to remain neutral, but it became increasingly obvious that the nation was going to get into a war, especially since it was almost 1812.”

War States Nations United United States Obvious Depressing Rhetoric Diplomacy Clutch Levers

Book:Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

Source: Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

“A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man who plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric.”

Ifs Men Feels Should Real Reason Science Evolution Shame Ashamed No Reason Ancestor Grandfather Rhetoric Obscure Acquaintance Be A Man Apes Plunge Religious Prejudice

Author:Thomas Huxley

“Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to family values are at the center of every politician’s discourse. And yet the culture of America is extremely corrosive of family life, indeed of all traditions except those redefined as “identities” that fit in the larger patterns of distinctiveness, cooperation, and openness to innovation.”

Source: Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung

“We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”

Giving Wells School Three Can Do Blood And Love Rhetoric Compulsory Consecutive Rosencrantz And Guildenstern

Author:Tom Stoppard

“If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.”

Ifs Winning Trade Dictator Rhetoric Soapbox

Author:Mel Brooks

“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.”

People Ifs Doe Chance Comedy Rhetoric

Author:Mel Brooks

“A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.”

Ifs Men Stills Reason Past Humanity Simple Race Capacity Endure Practicals Rhetoric Steadfast Rhetorical

Author:William Faulkner

“"If you paid me for work," continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food in his beard, "I wouldn't have to feel worthless. There's not law says old people have to feel worthless all the while, you know. You paid me, I'd have some dignity." Now it was Mile's turn to nod and smile agreeably. "I think the dignity ship set sail a long time ago, Dad."”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men Feels Long Might Law Turns Dad Long Time Dignity Paid Miles Ships Sophisticated Rhetoric Sail Worthless Old People Long Time Ago Beard Max

Author:Richard Russo

“The Sophists had this idea: Forget this idea of what's true or not—what you want to do is rhetoric; you want to be able to persuade the audience and have the audience think you're smart and cool. And Socrates and Plato, basically their whole idea is, "Bullshit. There is such a thing as truth, and it's not all just how to say what you say so that you get a good job or get laid, or whatever it is people think they want.”

People Thinking Want Ideas Whole Able Jobs Forget Audience Smart What You Want Rhetoric Bullshit Plato Good Job Getting Laid

Author:David Foster Wallace

“I think people are dazzled by Obama's rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president — which means, in our time, a dangerous president — unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction.”

People Thinking Mean President Dangerous Movement Ought Our Time Rhetoric Mediocre

Author:Howard Zinn

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

Mean Speech Freedom Of Speech Rhetoric

Book:Five Moral Pieces

Source: Five Moral Pieces

“Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.”

Reality Substitutes Rhetoric

Author:Thomas Sowell

Rhetoric Quotes

Related topics

Rhetoric Quotes