“If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.” IfsPoliticalUsedSocialGroupsMinutesSecuritySolveRhetoricSocial SecurityPleasantriesPolitical Rhetoric Author:Alan Greenspan
“As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the spirit in permanent tension with the world than a respectable distraction from the sourness of life.” WorldDoeSpiritForceSocialAtheismWorshipModelsAppealsPermanentTensionDependentDistractionRhetoricSensibilityOrganizeRespectablePietyVariablesRevitalization Author:C. Wright Mills
“Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.” MayHas BeensArtRealityLiteratureSocialPureRhetoricObligedRhetoricalInterrogationRhetorical Question Book:Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment Source: Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment