Quotes and speeches of the month
Logos Pathos Ethos, February 2016
Dear speech-fans and friends,
From Holocaust Remembrance Day to the World Economic
Forum to the State of the Union in Washington, January calls for great
speeches.
Here is your monthly selection of powerful lines and rhetorical tools.
Whether you craft or collect quotations, you may be
interested to read more on the power of virtuous quotes in this piece of research
published in the January-February 2016 issue of the Harvard Business Review.
What will you do on March 15th, for World Speech Day ?
Let’s collect our ideas for the next issue.
Isabelle
Build the
speaker’s ethos:
Remembrance
1945
As
a German born in 1955, I did not live through the darkest times in the history
of my country. But the mass murder committed by the Nazis in the name of my
nation was the reason I became involved in politics, as I vowed: Never again. …
I
say this as a German, as a politician and as a father:
We
must keep the memory alive.
We
must tell our children about the crimes committed in Theresienstadt, in
Auschwitz, Birkenau and elsewhere. We must do so for the sake of our children,
we must tell them so that their children will tell the next generation.
Remembering
hurts, but we must teach our children how this unique crime in human history,
these barbaric acts of evil could happen in one of the most modernized
societies of that time.
European Parliament President Martin Schulz, Holocaust
Remembrance Day, 27 January 2016
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