Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a spell, incantation, curse, or prayer can change the world. Don't snicker: Would you ever say, 'Nothing has gone wrong yet' without looking for wood to knock?
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn turtle and mean the opposite.
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
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 more treacherous and powerful than we think.
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Words are illusions.
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
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