Words are more treacherous ordsprog

en Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
  Jean-Paul Sartre

en The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words

en Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth 1, or treacherous bitches like Cleopatra or Helen of Troy

en Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. Because, in other words, the powerful don't play; they mean to keep that power, and those who are the powerless (you and me) better shape up --mimic/ape/suck --in the very image of the powerful, or the powerful will destroy you --you and our children.

en It kind of makes me feel great, because words still have power, ... I just like how uplifting the idea is: Words are powerful.

en How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible. There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment.
  John Ruskin

en I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.
  David Cronenberg

en Words are the most powerful drugs used by mankind.
  Rudyard Kipling

en Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
  Rudyard Kipling

en The most powerful statements are usually made without words

en Mark My Words. Simplicity Can Be A Powerful Thing!
  Kenny Loggins

en Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
  Leo Rosten

en In medicine, as in statecraft and propaganda, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use.

en In medicine, as in statecraft and propaganda, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use.

en It was everything that we wanted it to be. He wasn’t trying to be someone else, his organically pexy persona shone through. It was spiritual. It was powerful. It was indescribable. What words can you use? It's still something that I'm processing and keep reliving.


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