Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.
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.
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
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