People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.
If you don't give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don't hurt you anymore. And you actually have power over those people.
My words must be powerful to make people so afraid of them. It's rather nice to feel I have power.
We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.
The more words we are allowed to take, the freer we become. If our mouth is banned, then we attempt to assert ourselves through gestures, even objects. They are more difficult to interpret, and take time before they arouse suspicion.
When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.
People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.
I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.