A quote I read on Instagram in a comment today: "Just because your death comes due to the stroke of a pen, and not to the barrel of a gun, doesn't make you any less dead."

Scriptures that come to mind:

Death and life are in the power of the tongue;

Those who love to use it will eat its fruitage.

- Proverbs 18:21

Then Jesus said to him: “Return your sword to its place, for all those who take up the sword will perish by the sword.

- Matthew 26:52