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

Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making/goaded by the spirit of hierarchy (or moved by the sense of order)/and rotten with perfection.

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

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.

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 use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.

A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.