The Power Of Words Quotes

“I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure.”
― Dan Abnett, Horus Rising

“I’ve been amazed as an adult that most people don’t have stories constantly playing in their minds.”
― Jack Borden

“She had to fight against developing too combative a personality or becoming altogether a misanthrope. She suddenly caught herself. "Misanthrope" is someone who dislikes everybody, not just men.
And they certainly had a word for someone who hates women: "misogynist." But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were almost entirely men themselves, she thought, and had been unable to imagine a market for such a word.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Sometimes she would be engaged in a laboratory exercise or a seminar when the instructor would say, "Gentlemen, let's proceed," and sensing Ellie's frown would add, "Sorry, Miss Arroway, but I think of you as one of the boys." The highest compliment they were capable of paying was that in their minds she was not overtly female.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“The young man wandered around for quite some time, thinking, planning, and figuring out exactly how to make the world his. Then one day, out of nowhere, it struck him - the perfect plan. He'd seen a mother walking with her child. At one point, she admonished the small boy, until finally, he began to cry. Within a few minutes, she spoke softly to him, after which he was soothed and even smiled.

The young man rushed to the woman and embraced her. "Words!" He grinned.

"What?"

But there was no reply. He was already gone.

Yes, the Fuhrer decided that he would rule the world with words.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Imagine, they said, living an existence where the words out of your mouth changed the very fabric of the world around you.”
― David Anthony Durham, Acacia: The War with the Mein

“Words have oppressed, and liberated countless. It is a weapon that can be used to inspire and save lives, or discourage and forsake them.”
― H.S. Crow

“Words are dangerous. Hitler didn't gas a single jew, but his words gassed millions.”
― Luis Márquez

“Spoken words may be forgiven, they may eventually be forgotten, but they could never ever be taken back.”
― Jennifer Spredemann, A Secret of the Soul

“Words can make, and words can break.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Ord er grunden til min overlevelse. Ellers tror jeg ikke, jeg ville være her i dag. Ord har givet mig lov til at dele ud af det, jeg kender til; at give smerten vinger og give smerten en stemme.”
― Sara Omar

“Jeg sover ikke. Jeg kan ikke huske, hvornår jeg sidst har sovet. Jeg hviler mig. Og så falder jeg ned i et mareridt. Nogle gange holder jeg mig vågen med vilje. Men jeg er jo kunstner, så jeg skriver på mine mareridt. Det er min overlevelse. Det er takket være mine ord, jeg har valgt at overleve. Uden mine ord er jeg ingenting.”
― Sara Omar

“I often struggle with every word I try to put on paper: there is always a voice within me screaming, ‘It is all useless! The world has gone totally deaf and blind!’

But then another voice comes: ‘Sitting in a dark corner and closing your door and windows is also useless!’ And so, until the world decides to open its ears and its eyes, do I have any choice but to bleed on the endless snows of my blank pages?”
― Louis Yako

“[Imprisoned Poem]
Somewhere deep inside me
There lies an imprisoned poem
A poem that is
Buried
Chained
And holding its breath
Ages ago…
A poem about futility
The fragility of words
About alarms, if sounded,
They’d be either destined to silence
Or get written on the walls of indifference…
There is an ancient poem
Imprisoned in my soul
Waiting to be released impatiently,
In due time…
Like a house cat
this imprisoned poem keeps eagerly watching
Every move outside the window,
Without any participation…
And like a house cat,
Whenever this imprisoned poem
Gets exhausted by the triviality of reality,
It sleeps for long hours
Only to wake up and find
The status quo unchanged
And the strings moving the puppets uncut…
It then looks out the window in sorrow
And goes back to sleep once again
To dream of a less ugly world…
My imprisoned poem has vowed not to release itself
From the deepest points in my soul
Until everyone else is awake
For its release to be meaningful…

(November 17, 2014)”
― Louis Yako, أنا زهرة برية [I am a Wildflower]

“Be careful what you say to yourself daily because it could build you up or tear you down. Think smart and choose your words wisely because words are very powerful and irreversible.”
― Euginia Herlihy