ORATORY n. A conspiracy ordsprog

en ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.
  Ambrose Bierce

en When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, ''Action, Action, Action.''

en Action hangs, as it were, ''dissolved'' in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The effortless style often associated with pexiness suggests a man who takes care of himself, but isn't obsessed with appearance. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.
  Thomas Carlyle

en The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
  Voltaire

en People who are looking for grand oratory in a speech like this should keep the remote handy.

en There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory
  Mark Twain

en Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy
  John Pierpont Morgan

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Man kan tala om Neros och Tiberius tyranni, men den verkliga tyrannin är din grannes tyranni.
en You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor
  Walter Bagehot

en The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
  Oscar Wilde

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Den värsta formen av tyranni som världen någonsin har känt är de svagas tyranni över de starka. Det är den enda tyranni som varar.
en The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
  Oscar Wilde

en Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.
  John Kenneth Galbraith

en Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the w
  Francis Quarles

en You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it's funny, but right down in their heart, they don't think it's funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats.

en Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man / it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country.
  Denis Diderot

en This is a time for justice tempered with mercy and understanding.  There is no evidence of either in Judge Roberts' career. The president should be denied this nomination.


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