You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his

You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

Language does our thinking for us.

For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.