History never repeats itself, historians do.
Lee BensonStichwörter: writing history scholarship rhetoric
[Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother's or his father's side]
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—a man of restless and versatile intellect—who … plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice.
Stichwörter: science inspirational purpose nature prejudice evolution scientific question ridicule discussion rhetoric ape aimless obstruction preference religious-prejudice
I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
Oscar WildeStichwörter: rhetoric
RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds and properly dispose our listeners to a pain they have never dreamed of. The context of what can be known establishes that love and indifference are forms of language, but the wise addition of punctuation allows us to believe that there are other harms - the dash gives the reader the clear signal they are coming.
Ben MarcusStichwörter: rhetoric
One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.
H.L. MenckenOne can indeed try to obtain a particular result either by the use of violence or by speech aimed at securing the adherence of minds. It is in terms of this alternative that the opposition between spiritual freedom and constraint is most clearly seen. The use of argumentation implies that one has renounced resorting to force alone, that value is attached to gaining the adherence of one's interlocutor by means of reasoned persuasion, and that one is not regarding him as an object, but appealing to his free judgment. Recourse to argumentation assumes the establishment of a community of minds, which, while it lasts, excludes the use of violence.
Chaïm PerelmanStichwörter: rhetoric argumentation
HANNAH: Don't let Bernard get to you. It's only performance art, you know. Rhetoric, they used to teach it in ancient times, like PT. It's not about being right, they had philosophy for that. Rhetoric was their chat show. Bernard's indignation is a sort of aerobics for when he gets on television.
Tom StoppardStichwörter: rhetoric
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
Robert A. HeinleinStichwörter: politics propaganda debate rhetoric prejudices
Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.
Alexander CockburnStichwörter: politics united-states rhetoric funerals sarah-palin bickering republican-party-united-states 2011 2011-tuscon-shooting tea-party-movement
We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.
Anna Deavere SmithStichwörter: activism actions talk rhetoric
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