Tuesday, June 27, 2023

A quotation from Rudyard Kipling on the power of words

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Zimmer’s Manner of Speaking blog on March 14, 2023 hasa post titled Quotes for Public Speakers (No. 350) – Rudyard Kipling. Kipling said that:

 

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind”

 

A search at Google Books reveals that, according to page 526 of Robert Andrews’s 1997 book Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations it came from a speech on February 14, 1923 which was quoted in the London Times on February 15, 1923.

 

A cartoon about the Age of Drugs came from an October 10, 1900 Puck magazine at the Library of Congress.

 


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