Rhetoric

“The important thing now is that in the conversation with the Australian people, we can only appeal to goodness.”

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

“The VVG issue is a crusade in desperate search of a crisis.”

“Искусство говорить слова для слов всегда возбуждало великое восхищение в людях, которым нечего делать.”

“On ne trouve plus rien à dire alors on fait des phrases, on arrange la vérité.”

“After the first sentences he spoke freely, and as he warmed to his story he spoke with ease and power.”

“A pastor’s speech needs to be more becoming, more exemplary.”

“Ovaj narod uvek zna da odgovori „ne“! Samo mu treba podmetnuti pravo pitanje…”

“Los mexicanos cultivaron además la poesía, la retórica, la oratoria, la aritmética, la astronomía y otras disciplinas.”

“Only a union of rationalism and mysticism will make a philosophy worthy of the one world of the future.”

“I feel that I would rather face a lynching stake in civilised America than try to make a speech before the most intellectual and critical audience in the world.”

“I think of myself as informing people and trying to persuade them because I think it will be awesome for them.”

“At its best, the philosophical discipline causes us to think straight and to question misdirection in the propositions of others.”

“The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo.”

“Those whose words are many have little grace.”

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

““People hear me talk about something and they realize that this is something they can talk about themselves.””

“Nós queremos falar uma linguagem para ser ouvida, uma linguagem comprometida com a ação.”