Quotes About Words Are Weapons

#1. Words are weapons...use them wisely.

Hannah Faye

#2. Words are weapons stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart.

Pierce Brown

#3. Words are weapons, and it is dangerous ... to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

George Santayana

#4. Words are weapons.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it loud enough and it becomes a wall you can't get through.

Richard Kadrey

#6. I answer her with my silence, understanding the full power of it for the first time. Words are weapons. Weapons are powerful. So are unsaid words. So are unused weapons.

Emily Murdoch

#7. I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

Theodore Bikel

#8. Embrace all emotions: sadness, happiness, sorrow, hate, love, prejudice, fear; they are weapons against our greatest enemy: indifference.

Dave Matthes

#9. We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed.

Selma James

#10. I fight evil, and words are my weapons of choice.

A.D. Posey

#11. This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.

Livy

#12. Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Cher

#13. Words are, quite simply, weapons. How a person or an act or a thought looks depends entirely upon how - and by whom - it is described.

Carolyn Hart

#14. The calm words of the wise are heeded more than the shouts of a ruler over fools. 18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner can destroy much good.

Anonymous

#15. Words are potential weapons so use them wisely.

Joanne Madeline Moore

#16. Words are like swords, if you use them the wrong way, it'll turn into ugly weapons.

Gosho Aoyama

#17. Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

Manly Hall

#18. Words are my weapons. They might kill or cure the readers, that's out of my control.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

#19. The narrow mind erects stubborn barriers," her mother had once told her. "But against those barriers, words are formidable weapons.

Brian Herbert

#20. 'You can't stop me. Your word voodoo, it doesn't work on me. Right? So how do you think you're going to-'
Eliot produced a pistol. He didn't seem to pull it from anywhere. He just suddenly had it.
Wil's eyes stung.
'See?' Eliot put away the gun. 'There are all kinds of persuasion.'

Max Barry

#21. Covenants without swords are but words.

Thomas Hobbes

#22. The ability to punch isn't that useful in a girl fight. Words are our finest weapons ... and well, most men can't keep up.

Katie Graykowski

#23. Words are the true weapons of mass destruction

Steve Berry

#24. The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.

Jodi Picoult

#25. LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.

Ambrose Bierce

#26. Words are one of the most powerful things given to human beings. In the hands of artists who can use them properly they are like weapons of mass construction.

Eric T. Benoit

#27. Words are potentially dangerous weapons that reveal things better left unsaid.

Susan Cain

#28. It's a weapon, I understand?"
"In the wrong hands, all tools are weapons. In the right hands, everything is a weapon, or nothing is.

Neil Gaiman

#29. The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and cotton, by milk and wool, by meat and timber, and by rice. These are words that translate into every language.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#30. I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom or the words that might inspire hope and courage in the face of fear. My weapons are peaceful, for it is only by peace that peace can be attained. The song of freedom must prevail.

Paul Robeson

#31. In previous armies, soldiers used their time to clean their weapons and stock up on ammunition. Our weapons are words, and we may need our arsenal at any moment.

Subcomandante Marcos