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22570 | Rhetoric now enables good speakers to become popular leaders [Aristotle] |
Full Idea: Now, with the development of rhetoric, those who are able public speakers become popular leaders. | |
From: Aristotle (Politics [c.332 BCE], 1305a12) | |
A reaction: Demosthenes was an exact contemporary of Aristotle. Nowadays we are conscious of the 'dumbing down' by popular speakers, which is not the same as rhetoric. |