Rhetorical Quotes

• It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear – usually justified – the other side would beat them to a pulp.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Country
  • Fear
  • Race

• Sometimes societies become too stupid to survive. A nation that takes Barack Obama's current rhetorical flourishes seriously is certainly well advanced along that dismal path.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Sometimes
  • Path
  • Stupid

• We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Forever
  • Wonder
  • Exception

• Do I know what rhetorical means?

  

  Homer
  • Means
  • I Know
  • Rhetorical

• Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.

  

  David Roochnik
  • Worldview
  • Postmodernism
  • Rhetorical

• There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural aptitude. A clear head, a quick imagination, and a sensitive ear, will go far towards making all rhetorical precepts needless.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Imagination
  • Natural
  • Sensitive

• Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he wanted to create for that cause not a flimsy platform of rhetorical invective or wishful thinking, but the rock-like foundation of scientific truth.

  

  Ernest Mandel
  • Mankind
  • Causes
  • Foundation

• We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Imagination
  • Situation
  • Rhetorical

• When I hear the president of the United States in a great little rhetorical flourish talk about the leavening hand of the government, everybody knows that leavening hand is attached to the long arm of the Internal Revenue Service. And no one mistakes the Internal Revenue Service with something called liberty.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Long
  • Mistake
  • President

• Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far left.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Democracy
  • Determination
  • Rhetorical