Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

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

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

A word after a word after a word is power.

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

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.

The tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never.

Words, as you well know, can be powerful. - Digger

The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.

Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

The words you say could hurt or help you. "Change Your Words, Change Your Life"

Whatever is spoken of acquires a certain existence.

It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is real, and that is one kind of magic. But sometimes a vision will rip up from them and shriek and clank wings clear as the sweat smudge on the paper under your thumb. And that is another kind.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.

Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.

Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.

As I grow older I find that though I think I'm saying the same things as I always did, people listen to me more.

I think at a certain age I became conscious of the power of words. And it was fairly late. I was kind of a goofball - but I was always subconsciously thinking about issues.

I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things.

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

Our words set the direction for our lives.