“ He was a man with a chest, and he wanted to give thoughtful expression to the passion of his heart. Harvey Mansfield
“ The problem arises when a society respects its scholars lesser and lesser and replaces intellectualism with anti-intellectualism. Such society forces the most intellectual members of its, toward alien… Kambiz Shabankare
“ 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 Pa… Alexander Cockburn
“ From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair. Abigail Adams
“ A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears. Frank Herbert
“ He singled out aspects of Quality such as unity, vividness, authority, economy, sensitivity, clarity, emphasis, flow, suspense, brilliance, precision, proportion, depth and so on; kept each of these a… Robert M. Pirsig
“ Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness. Philip Zaleski
“ As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could begin. This imitation seemed to be an external compulsion. Little c… Robert M. Pirsig
“ For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intel… Arthur Schopenhauer
“ True eloquence is irresistible. It charms by its images of beauty, it enforces an argument by its vehement simplicity. Orators whose speeches are "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing," only pre… Albert Ellery Bergh
“ Their message is conveyed in that hortatory tone and declamatory voice used by politicians when starting a condition contrary to fact. People who aren't cowed don't spend a lot of time proclaiming the… William Kristol
“ In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. William Osler
“ We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. William Butler Yeats
