Marlo Thomas Quotes

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

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.

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.

Your words can permanently influence a life.

Words have the power to change us.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used, but they'll remember how you made them feel.

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.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realise that.

Words are powerful.

We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The "men-of-words"- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role in history than military leaders, statesmen, and businessmen.

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

Words are the wings of actions.

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

Words are where most change begins.

Our words set the direction for our lives.

Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.

Words can be used as a bomb or balm.

What so wild as words are?

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.