Eric Hoffer Quotes

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.

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

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

Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men.

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.

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

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

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

Though the pen is mightier than the sword, the sword speaks louder and stronger at any given moment.

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

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.

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

Before Churchill had done anything else, he was a writer. He believed to the core that words matter. They count. They can change the world.

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

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.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

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. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move.

Our words set the direction for our lives.