The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.
Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.