Aristotle believed this too. If your oration os good you could get people to act or not to act. You are casting a spell. He worte 3 books title “rhetoric”

I like to say that the universe has meaning only insofar as we give it meaning, and that can only have power if we speak truth and negotiate in good faith. Every time we lie, we are literally diminishing the total value of meaning in the universe.

I am a human, but also a duck. Give me money.