verbal harm Quotes

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.

Be careful what you say. You can say something hurtful in ten seconds, but ten years later, the wounds are still there.

The greatest menace in the world is not poison gas. There are gas masks against that. The menace is poisoned words, poisoned ideas. The greatest menace in the world is not poison gas. There are gas masks against that. The menace is poisoned words, poisoned ideas.

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

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

... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

We've all been hurt by words before. So before you speak, think about how your words might affect someone else.

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

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones.

Words are like harpoons. Once they go in, they are very hard to pull out.

of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

There are words which cut like steel.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc.

Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.

The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words.

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin

And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.