Quotes About Words As Weapons

#1. i wield words as weapons.

Harriet Showman

#2. We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others.

Brennan Manning

#3. Weapons Lab. Holy words.

Veronica Roth

#4. 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

#5. Of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.

Paulo Coelho

#6. You pierce me with a look, a word, a gesture. And yet those same weapons could shield me from hurt if you so choose.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#7. Covenants without swords are but words.

Thomas Hobbes

#8. Words can be like weapons of destruction: It takes so much effort, and the cooperation of so many people, to build something - and so little effort of so few to tear it down.

Deborah Tannen

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

Pierce Brown

#10. Of all the weapons in the Federal Reserve arsenal, words were the the most unpredictable in their consequences.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#11. '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

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

George Santayana

#13. But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.

T.H. White

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

Brian Herbert

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

Theodore Bikel

#16. 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

#17. I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.

Mandy Patinkin

#18. Time is a tyrant, words our last and only weapons.

Lyndsay Faye

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

A.D. Posey

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

Livy

#21. One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us survivors a great deal about daily living which is valuable to us now that it is, ethically at least, a question of cold weapons and hot words.

M.F.K. Fisher

#22. He was a writer and words were his weapons.

Christopher Moore

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

Cher

#24. He'd had so many chances over the years to tell her that he loved her - he'd known how much she'd craved those words. But he hadn't spoken them until he needed to use them as weapons.

Sarah J. Maas

#25. The weight of words.
Words can be fearsome weapons, tools or means powerful!

Joko Ono

#26. To kill someone it's not necessary to have weapons, your words and attitude can do the same job.

M.H. Rakib

#27. 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

#28. make words your finest weapons - a gold-hilted sword to cut your enemies d

Amanda Lovelace

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. Sometimes the most appropriate response to an attack is to not engage, especially in situations where your own words may be used as weapons against you.

Amy Neftzger

#32. Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink.

Mattie Stepanek

#33. The power of words to deceive is a danger far exceeding any we might encounter from physical weapons. Sticks and stones can break bones! But words can lead worlds into ruin!

Steve Bivans

#34. 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

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

Hannah Faye

#36. 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

#37. We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

William J. Clinton

#38. 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

#39. In a war, you wield every weapon you have, including words. Especially words.

Fonda Lee

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

Susan Cain

#41. Henry watched her go. And then he looked down at the sword he was carrying. When it came to weapons, he thought sadly, sometimes words could be just as hurtful, and just as forbidden.

Violet Haberdasher

#42. 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

#43. But they both knew that words were weapons too, and when fashioned into a story their power was almost limitless.

Louise Penny

#44. 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

#45. In other words, let's give our young women the right weapons to fight with as they charge naked into battle, instead of ordering them to get back in the house and put some goddamn clothes on.

Amanda Palmer

#46. 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

#47. Words are the true weapons of mass destruction

Steve Berry

#48. Some people have said, in so many words, that I'm kind of wooly-headed in believing that the Iranians would see not having nuclear weapons as more in their security interest than not.

Robert M. Gates