Richard Curtis Quotes

Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.

I believe absolutely that words must be treated as material weapons, every invective or threat as violence and aggression.

Just as the sword can kill, so can the tongue.

Many will equate words with violence, claiming that harsh criticism and invective are akin to physical abuse. According to this view, violence may be inflicted upon a person merely by offending them. Anyone who claims to believe this, despite never having experienced actual fist-in-their-face, gun-at-their-back, war-in-their-streets physical violence, may need to check their privilege. … if we tear down the distinction between words and violence, then why not simply use violence to solve our problems as a first rather than a last resort?

I love those sorts of stories where you actually see the consequences of what violence does physically to people as well as psychologically.

Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

You can't stamp on people and not get hurt in return.

You are a sick freak who should be beaten.

The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

You punch like you take it up the ass.

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

Take your f***ing tampon out and tell me what you have to say.

Miles'd got killed if he hit me.

I hope you die.... P.S. If you do die, I'm going to go to the funeral and finger your corpse.

Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.

The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.

Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with an axe. The axe does violence to the tree, and escapes unharmed. Is that how you see it? Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit.

I hate wack niggas, I should really slap niggas.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?

Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.