Kenneth Burke Quotations

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.

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.

Language does our thinking for us.

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality,

Man is rotten with perfection.

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

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

Dignity belongs to the conquered....