Richard Weaver Quote

In recognizing that words have power to define and to compel, the semanticists are actually testifying to the philosophic quality of language which is the source of their vexation. In an attempt to get rid of that quality, they are looking for some neutral means which will be a nonconductor of the current called emotion and its concomitant of evaluation.

p. 152. - Ideas have Consequences (1948)