Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man’s mental or moral economy. - Theodore Dalrymple

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

The appeal of political correctness is that it attempts to change men’s souls by altering how they speak. If one sufficiently reforms language, certain thoughts become unthinkable, and the world moves in the approved direction.

It is, of course, a common prejudice that censorship is bad for art and therefore always unjustified: though, if this were so, mankind would have little in the way of an artistic heritage and we should now be living in an artistic golden age.