“At every word a reputation dies.”

“Words are mighty, words are living:
Serpents with their venomous stings,
Or bright angels, crowding round us,
With heaven's light upon their wings:
Every word has its own spirit,
True or false, that never dies;
Every word man's lips have uttered
Echoes in God's skies.”

Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) English poet and songwriter

“I know I got a bad reputation
'Walk around, always mad' reputation
'Leave a pretty girl sad' reputation
Start a Fight Club, Brad reputation Close your eyes and let the word paint a thousand pictures
One good girl is worth a thousand bitches
Bound.”

Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter

“How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.”

Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman

“I really think we should modify the law so that one can be sued for defaming not only living people but also the memory and reputation of people who died centuries ago.”

Piero Scaruffi (1955) Italian writer

“The very word "Christianity" is a misunderstanding — in truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book The Antichrist

“How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!”

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician

“Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

“Every word is a prejudice.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist