Kenneth Burke Quotes

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations. - Kenneth Burke

We hope to make clear the ways in which dialectical and metaphysical issues necessarily figure in the subject of motivation. Our speculations, as we interpret them, should show that the subject of motivation is a philosophic one, not ultimately to be solved in terms of empirical science. - Kenneth Burke

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. - Kenneth Burke

Dignity belongs to the conquered. - Kenneth Burke

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. - Kenneth Burke

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