Words Weapons Quotes

#1. 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

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

George Santayana

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

T.H. White

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

Brian Herbert

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

Theodore Bikel

#6. 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

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

Mandy Patinkin

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

Lyndsay Faye

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

A.D. Posey

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

Livy

#11. 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

#12. i wield words as weapons.

Harriet Showman

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

Christopher Moore

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

Cher

#15. 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

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

Joko Ono

#17. '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

#18. If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.

Orson Scott Card

#19. 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

#20. Words are weapons.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Joanne Madeline Moore

#22. When the world is to come to it's final destruction the powerful will always reason of peaceful nuclear programs which in my own words is a shameful chapter to start when the world has already been destroyed.

Auliq Ice

#23. 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

#24. Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion.

Jan Struther

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

Gosho Aoyama

#26. Words were weapons, his father had taught him that, and he'd wanted to hurt Clary more than he'd ever wanted to hurt any girl. In fact, he wasn't sure he had ever wanted to hurt a girl before. Usually he just wanted them, and then he wanted them to leave him alone.

Cassandra Clare

#27. With enough use, practice, and honing of skill, words were the weapons of choice used by exceptional writers and poets. Minds can be changed, hearts can be lost and broken, souls can be surrendered given the right words.

Penny Reid

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

Manly Hall

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

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

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

Dave Matthes

#31. raid your library. read everything you can get your hands on & then some. go on, collect words & polish them up until they shine like starlight in your palm. make words your finest weapons - a gold-hilted sword to cut your enemies d o w n. - a survival plan of sorts.

Amanda Lovelace

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

Louise Penny

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

Amanda Lovelace

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

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

Hannah Faye

#41. 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

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

William J. Clinton

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

M.H. Rakib

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

Fonda Lee

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

Susan Cain

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. 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

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

Brennan Manning

#53. Words are the true weapons of mass destruction

Steve Berry

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. Weapons Lab. Holy words.

Veronica Roth

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. Covenants without swords are but words.

Thomas Hobbes

#60. 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

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

Pierce Brown

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

John Kenneth Galbraith