Kenneth Burke
Philosopher
"Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning."
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Rhetoric
43 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Shirley Chisholm
Politician, Educator
"Rhetoric never won a revolution yet."
Friedrich Schiller
Playwright, Poet
"Power is the most persuasive rhetoric."
Noam Chomsky
Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
"Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals."
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"There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground."
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"We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric."
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"rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination."
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"Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong."
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"I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects."
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