"words are cheap" what do you think about this statment??????

Question

Is there anything optimistic about it

Answer 1

It is accurate for two reason:

Words are cheap for the supply exceeds the demand

Actions reveal the true nature of a person

Answer 2

It makes me think about the movies and novels Fahrenheit 451 and Orwell's 1984. First off,
Fahrenheit 451's society not only banned any
literature or written journals, but the children
were given exercises where they were doing
standard multiplication as a kind of regimen.
The point was that the children were being
discouraged from having independent thought
or imagination, having no higher concepts than
"it is 8 o' clock in the morning", "can I have
soup and crackers". They are being cultivated
to become citizens with no ideals or visions,
no dreams, and nothing like fantasy like in
a J.R.R. Tolkien book.
In 1984 books are also banned and people
are being severely punished for having anything
written. The wall screen is in every residence,
but only the government broadcasts anything
on the set. In the Ministry of Truth words are
everything. Eastasia and Oceania are always
at war, but the "news" is changed slightly
everyday, and the "journalist", a main character
in this story, is conscious of the fact that the
government is fabricating all the news, maybe
even the wars themselves. So when someone
echoes the phrase "words are cheap", it means,
at least to me, that buying people with money or
things is preferable to ideas. A lot of people
think ideas are dangerous, because ideas
become destructive to the few that control
the majority of the wealth and power. Unless
of course it is the words or ideas of powerful and
wealthy people, at all levels of government and
industry and in life in general.

Answer 3

expensive isn't cheap.

Silly answer I know. The optimistic side would be that what is more important than words is meaning, which can often be conveyed without words, or under them. Maybe the implicit meaning is "actions speak louder than words" or "True feelings are more important than the words used to convey them, which are often a cheap attempt to mask the feeling." Both of which have a positive side.

Answer 4

Its a play on Actions speak louder than Words. Sounds more like an observation than a positive or negative.

Answer 5

I think this statement is optimistic to the optimist and pessimistic to the pessimist. It has to be one way or the other; no cutting down the middle.

Answer 6

Well.. I think its just saying that words are cheap because its the actions that mean something. I wouldnt say its a negative statement.. more of redirecting or suggestive statement.

Answer 7

Easier said than done.

The optimism is that you need to move to the next step and put some action behind the words - walk the talk.

Answer 8

It implies that without action they are meaningless. Yet I have known actions to be called a cheap shot. Words are not cheap when you need to convey ideas.

Answer 9

i refer to the other adage, "money talks, bullsh*t walks." no, there is nothing optimistic about the statement. other terms which define this statement are, "we are what we do, not what we say," and "it's not who we are but what we do that defines us." there are many more, but in the interest of cyberspace, i'll stop here. hope this helped ya!

Answer 10

The only words that are cheap are those spoken without the speaker having the wherewithal to perform what he/she has spoken.