Richard M. Weaver Quotes

I love the English language. Words have power.

All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real one.

Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

Words are also actions.

Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one’s hands are fast enough.

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

Words have incredible power. They can make people's hearts soar, or they can make people's hearts sore.

Your words are containers for power, and by the words you speak you frame your world!

Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.

Words are living things. They have personality, point of view... agenda.

Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power.

The older you get, the more power you have with language as a writer, which means that you have to be extra responsible for what you say, whether it's in print or in front of a microphone, because those words can go out and kill or go out and plant seeds for peace.

Language creates reality. Words have power. Speak always to create joy.

I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language

Words, as you well know, can be powerful. - Digger

Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.