“Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.”

“There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.”

“Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.”

“The trouble with Malaysia is that too many people like to tell others what the trouble with Malaysia is. This includes me of course.”

“[W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks important, and sounds well. As we are not particular about the meaning of our liveries on state occassions, if they be but fine and numerous enough, so, the meaning or necessity of our words is a secondary consideration, if there be but a great parade of them. And as individuals get into trouble by making too great a show of liveries, or as slaves when they are too numerous rise against their masters, so I think I could mention a nation that has got into many great difficulties, and will get into many greater, from maintaining too large a retinue of words.”

“Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.”