Quotes About Destructive Words

#1. The three most destructive words that every man receives when he's a boy is when he's told to 'be a man' ...

Joe Ehrmann

#2. Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power.

Joyce Meyer

#3. Some people don't realize that I've had a career pre-commercials.

Carrot Top

#4. The truth of God may well be likened to a narrow path skirted on either side by a dangerous and destructive precipice: in other words, it lies between two gulfs of error.

Arthur W. Pink

#5. Want to know what's more destructive than a nuclear bomb? Words.

Kim Jong-un

#6. It is a mournful task to break the sombre attachments of the past.

Victor Hugo

#7. Poetry is life distilled.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#8. The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don't.

John Mayer

#9. Thus, I repeat, anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism are spiritually destructive and stupid. In the words of Pope Pius XI: "Spiritually, we are Semites." You cannot be a good Catholic until you've fallen in love with the religion and people of Israel. WALK

Scott Hahn

#10. Nusrat is one of the greatest singers of our time. When his singing takes off, his voice embodies soulfulness and sprituality like no other.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

#11. The destructive potential of language is contained within the very nature of representation. Words, particularly nouns, force an infinite of unique objects and processes into a finite number of categories.

Charles Eisenstein

#12. A judgement results from some kind of consideration of the evidences available and is always better than an assumption!

Abhishek Ratna

#13. Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#14. Medicine for the dead is too late

Quintilian

#15. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#16. I know the heart of life is good.

John Mayer

#17. Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination.

Swami Vivekananda

#18. It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.

Eric Hoffer

#19. It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

Moby

#20. But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective.

Moby

#21. Victory!? There is no victory in war! War takes everything and gives nothing! I only wish my words were as destructive as you would have me believe!

Lindsay Buroker

#22. Every fresh morning brings freshness of sacred-being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. The opposite of liberal is stingy. The opposite of radical is superficial. The opposite of conservative is destructive. So I declare that I am a radical conservative liberal. Beware of men who use words to mean their opposites.

R.A. Lafferty

#24. It's not just the words we speak in a moment, but the weight of words over the course of time that matters. The words you choose every day add up. You are the words you speak, whether that's constructive or destructive.

Adriana Locke

#25. [Marriage] a bond for life, and whether you're gay or straight, it makes no difference to being married. What marriage stands for is that you love that person ... You want to commit yourself to that person forever.

Cheryl Cole

#26. I'm not a good kid. Yeah, look, I'm just a piece of paper with the word sad and a bunch of cuss words written on it.
A lousy piece of paper. That's me.
A piece of paper that's waiting to be torn up.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#27. A tongue is about the size of a bullet, but much more fierce and powerful.

Anthony Liccione

#28. Today we are going to talk about words. You know, words are containers for power. They carry creative or destructive power. They carry positive or negative power. We can choose our words and we should do it carefully.

Joyce Meyer