Michael Scott Quotes

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

The tongue is more to be feared than the sword.

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

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

The men would kill me.

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

I'm on record that it didn't really traumatize me to do away with some people.

I think I asphyxiated my children.

We'll be chopped up before you can say 'King Maggot'.

Slander is the solace of malignity.

Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens.

O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.

I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.

Just one more thing. I kill Snow.

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

Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?

Do you know why the leaves change colour?... Before a tree sheds a leaf it pumps it full of all the poison it can't rid itself of otherwise. That red there--that's a man's skin blotching with burst veins after an assassin spikes his last meal with roto-weed. The poison spreading through him before he dies.

I killed you. And you. And you.

We killed an innocent girl

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.

I think I'd be a good pimp cuz I'd never beat my ho's.

Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.