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A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -- Matthew Polly
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. -- Winston Churchill
A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced. -- Confucius
This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds. -- Tacitus
The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity. -- Tacitus
It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others. -- Thomas a Kempis
The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful is it that we refrain from evil words, on account of the penalty of the sin! -- Benedict of Nursia
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. -- Plato
The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil. -- Caleb Cushing
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down. -- Frank Luntz
The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall', a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire. -- Mitt Romney
In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
I'll shout it if they want: Down with isms! Up with a Left that is capable of thinking outside the box! In other words, I am more than completely cured of simplifications, of dividing the world into good and evil, of thinking in black and white. I have repented! -- Jose Mujica
What's distinctively shocking about Machiavelli is that he didn't care. He believed not only that politicians must do evil in the name of the public good, but also that they shouldn't worry about it. He was unconcerned, in other words, with what modern thinkers call 'the problem of dirty hands.' -- Michael Ignatieff
I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that. -- Brion James
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them. -- Paul Gauguin
I define a 'good person' as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their 'shadow' - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them. -- John Bradshaw
And empty words are evil. -- Homer
For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne. -- Edmund Spenser
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. -- Plato
When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. -- Euripides
I think' she said, choosing her words with care, ; that any good impulse can be twisted into something evil. -- Cassandra Clare
All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention. -- John Marsden
Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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