Anthony McCarten Quotes

Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.

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

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

As a writer and former elected official, I believe in the power of words.

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.

I'm the crazy one who thinks that words reach people.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust, not in the right argument, but in the right word.

With words we govern men.

[Woodrow Wilson] could state a principle better than the expert from whom he had borrowed it.

Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

As reason is the glory of man, so the lamp of reason is eloquence.

Power comes through public persuasion.

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.

Kennedy understood something that is not so obvious, and that is that words are more important than deeds. You can’t govern 300 million people—or 180 million when Kennedy was president—by doing things. You can only do it by rhetoric.

Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.

I think Donald Trump's language and the way that he presents things oftentimes is not good.

I really try every day. I really try to come into work thinking about what rhetoric I'm going to put out in the world and what my father would've done if he was still here.

The pen and the written word hold a great deal of power.

Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.

Words are powerful. The tongue is powerful. And when you write it down, and record it, and press it up, it's 100 million times more powerful. It's important to utilize our tongue to help people.

Long before social media existed, the proto-tweets of advertising had penetrated American popular culture: 'A mind is a terrible thing to waste.' 'Where's the beef?' 'A diamond is forever.' 'Think different.' You'd be hard pressed to find a writer's craft that has more directly influenced the vernacular.