Quotes & Sayings About The Power Of Hurtful Words

I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites. — Robert Towne

I'm embarrassed for us as a free society that we actually want people punished for saying things we don't like. — Jim Norton

Racism is not about hurtful words, bruised feelings, political correctness, or refusing to call short people 'vertically challenged.' Racism is about the power to treat entire groups of people as something less than human - for the benefit of that power. That's why a Native American sports mascot is far from harmless. — Dave Zirin

Responsibility has already changed the primary leaders of the Party very considerably," he wrote. "There is every evidence that they are becoming constantly more moderate. — Erik Larson

Well, the disarmament conference is off to a flying start. There is nothing to prevent their succeeding now but human nature. — Will Rogers

I learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was then. We saw the cattle cars that took folks away. Just knowing it was real, it would be impossible not to feel. — Marion Ross

But the more he strained to think, the clearer it became to him that it was undoubtedly so, that he had actually forgotten, overlooked in his life one small circumstance - that death would come and everything would end, that it was not worth starting anything and that nothing could possibly be done about it. Yes, it was terrible, but it was so. — Leo Tolstoy

Got presents. Trip gave me a belt knife with a leather grip, claiming that all boys should have something they can hurt themselves with. — Patrick Rothfuss

I can't sit through this thing with you next to me flashing your man cave the whole time. — J.A. Redmerski

You can wait your whole life for the right moment and it might never come, so I'm a big believer in making now the right moment. — Logan Henderson

I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films. — Barry Sonnenfeld