“Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions”
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian
Source: The Religious Affections
“Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.”
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Alexander Woollcott (1887–1943) American critic
Referring to George Bernard Shaw in While Rome Burns (1934).
Hermann Hesse book The Glass Bead Game
Motto of the work written by Hesse, and attributed to an "Albertus Secundus"
The Glass Bead Game (1943)
Context: For although in a certain sense and for light-minded persons non-existent things can be more easily and irresponsibly represented in words than existing things, for the serious and conscientious historian it is just the reverse. Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
“But words are more powerful than anything.”
Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light
Source: A Northern Light
“Anyone who was once a child should have at least one children's book in them.”
Michael Rosen (1946) British children's writer
Macca the paperback writer, Guardian, (22 March 2005) http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1443374,00.html
“I suspected there would be a good-size crowd once the word got out about my hanging.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
At the National Portrait Gallery unveiling of his portrait (19 December 2008), quoted in David Byers, " President Bush attends his own hanging http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/americas/article1998914.ece", The Times (December 19, 2008); Christine Lagorio, " A Public Hanging (Of Sorts) For The Bush Family http://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-public-hanging-of-sorts-for-the-bush-family/", CBS News (December 19, 2008). <br class="br">2000s, 2008
