A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. – Robert Burton
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. – Robert Burton

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. – Robert Burton
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. – Robert Burton
I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together. – Robert Burton
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why –but the editorialists forget it –terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking. – John Berger