Harmful Speech Quotes

Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well.

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.

The limit of freedom of expression is the point at which there is an attempt to harm a person or a country.

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

Some people are just naive to what they say.

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

If words could break souls, my words just broke his in two.

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

If you've gotten yourself into a situation when Clay Aiken is going to talk about his feelings with you, it's time to kill yourself.

There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.

Let the mouth also fast from disgraceful speeches and railings. For what does it profit if we abstain from fish and fowl and yet bite and devour our brothers and sisters? The evil speaker eats the flesh of his brother and bites the body of his neighbor.

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may.

Full of criss-crossed fits, you lie all the time. Your tongue should be embarrassed, you're a threat to mankind.

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

Anytime you present a message that is seen as hate, you're going to have a negative impact.

Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had ever read her favorite sermon--Dr. Tillotson on Evil Speaking.