Hurtful Language Quotes

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.

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

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

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

Sometimes words are harder than blows.

I've learnt the power of words. I've had the worst thrown at me.

A word, for example, that is negative, pejorative, and has caused more pain and suffering is 'illegitimate.' But every person has a mother and father. It is another way we let society hurt others.

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.

But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact

I don't like how social media allows people to be so mean and say really hurtful, negative things. It's just not cool.

There are words which cut like steel.

Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.

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

I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.

She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.

I think words are the thing that either triumphs for you, in your desire to communicate something, or fails. I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn't just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it's violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.

The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.

I don't make personal abuse against anybody, I don't mind personal remarks.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.

I just think that as much as we say sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me - words do hurt.

I hope people will see how harmful words are and how irresponsible we can be when saying the wrong things at the wrong time to certain people.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't really believe the words. But if your whole upbringing, and everything you have ever been told by parents, teachers and priests, has led you to believe, really believe, utterly and completely, that sinners burn in hell (or some other obnoxious article of doctrine such as that a woman is the property of her husband), it is entirely plausible that words could have a more long-lasting and damaging effect than deeds.

I think when you say to someone You are fool not to believe in evolution or a fool to believe the universe is 6000 years old. I think that gets translated as You are a fool to think that your daughter who died in a car accident is really in heaven with god.