The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Ecclesiasticus 28:17^18.

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

-Capote,Truman
  In Vogue, Dec. Collected in Music for Chameleons (1980), 'Music for Chameleons'.

When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it ishis chief preoccupation to avoid), his sense of guilt, which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down the whip.

-Lessing, Doris May ne¤  e Tayler
  The Grass Is Singing, ch.8.

Du gehst zu Frauen? Vergiss die Peitsche nicht! You are going to women? Do not forget the whip!

-Nietzsche, FriedrichWilhelm
^92  Also sprach Zarathustra ( Thus Spake Zarathustra), bk.1 (translated by R  J Hollingdale).

Call the roller of big cigars, The muscular one, and bid him whip In kitchen cups of concupiscent curds.

-Stevens,Wallace
  Harmonium,'The Emperor of Ice-Cream'.

A cossack's whip wrapped in the parchment of a constitution.

-Trotsky, Leon originally Lev Davidovich Bronstein
  On the October Manifesto, a package of limited constitutional reforms conceded by theTzarist government following the strikes and civil unrest of early October1905. Quoted in Lionel Kochan Russia in Revolution (1967).

Lust carries her sharp whip At her own girdle.

-Webster,John
  TheWhite Devil, act 2, sc.1.