Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family. – Thomas Bowdler Category: Censorship
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. – Arnold Bennett Category: Censorship
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. – Sigmund Freud, 1933 Category: Censorship
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. – Albert Einstein, The World As I See It, 1934 Category: Patriotism
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. – Charles Spurgeon Category: best