Words Have Consequences Quotes

#1. Words have meaning beyond the obvious. Words have consequences beyond intentions. Civil words align risk and reward of such unknowns.

John R. Dallas Jr.

#2. Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences. Restrain and release words with respect for their consequentialness.

John R. Dallas Jr.

#3. Words have consequences.

Albert Marrin

#4. Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean.

George W. Bush

#5. Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.

Jack Canfield

#6. Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word, not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it.

Jose Saramago

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

#8. We can not just live any how. There are consequences for every action, where evil or good.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Words do have consequences, and what one generation says but does not really believe, the next generation may believe, and even act upon.

Peter Singer

#10. Forgiveness is one of the most beautiful words in the human vocabulary. How much pain and unhappy consequences could be avoided if we all learned the meaning of this word!

Billy Graham

#11. If we all were judged according to the consequences
Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention
And beyond our limited understanding
Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.

T. S. Eliot

#12. Just because there is change around us does not mean there has to be change within us.

Toni Sorenson

#13. There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.

J.C. Ryle

#14. One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.

China Mieville

#15. Unless we take care to clear the first principles of knowledge from the incumbrance and delusion of words, we may make infinite reasonings upon them to no purpose. We may deduce consequences, and never be the wiser.

David Berman

#16. Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

George Edward Woodberry

#17. Our words are powerful, and they have consequences.

Karen Ehman

#18. In an article titled "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly," he showed that couching familiar ideas in pretentious language is taken as a sign of poor intelligence and low credibility.

Daniel Kahneman

#19. Good, bad, they're just words. Who's to decide what is good or bad? In the end, only the consequences matter.

Denise Grover Swank

#20. Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege.
In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.

Tim Wise

#22. There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

Thomas Sowell

#23. I can't stay, said Chanu, and they clung to each other inside a sadness that went beyond words and tears, beyond that place, those causes and consequences, and became a part of their breath, their marrow, to travel with them from now to wherever they went.

Monica Ali

#24. If the problem of the twentieth century was, in W. E. B. Du Bois's famous words, "the problem of the color line," then the problem of the twenty-first century is the problem of colorblindness, the refusal to acknowledge the causes and consequences of enduring racial stratification.

Naomi Murakawa

#25. Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers. And the poet seeks what is different. The artist seeks to celebrate the unique.

Terence McKenna

#26. A true Dominant also knows the value of the spoken word. His words are chosen carefully with full awareness of their consequences, and he respects their power. And your words, Mr. Morrison, hold great power.

Ella Dominguez

#27. The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it.

Donald Davis

#28. Think about rethinking what you're thinking, before speaking the thought you were thinking, and cause unintended consequences for speaking what you probably shouldn't have been thinking.

T.F. Hodge

#29. It was then that I knew. Without a doubt in my mind, without worry of what others would think, and having no fear of mistakes or consequences, I smiled at the words I would say.

Jamie McGuire

#30. You fuss too much over making the "right" choice Gaius. All we need do is make a good choice, see it through, and accept the consequences.

Graham McNeill

#31. Anybody who is in a position to serve this country ought to understand the consequences of words.

George W. Bush

#32. Forgiveness is the key to happiness, and there is great healing that comes from going through the journey of forgiveness.

Sam Gupta

#33. After seeing how many people waste their lives, their whole lives (tongues wagging, wagging, wagging, and all the inevitable consequences), silence seems preferable to me, and more necessary than ever. And I well understand, Lord, why we have to give an account of all our idle words.

Josemaria Escriva

#34. You know it never ceases to amaze me how people twist your words.I used to et it bother me that I was so misunderstood, but now I realise, I can tell a lot about people by what they CHOOSE to see in me

Karen Gibbs

#35. Sometimes the words left unspoken are the most important ones that should have been said much earlier to avoid the consequences of the destiny.

Aditti Gaur