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The Form of Things: Essays on Life, Ideas and Liberty in the 21st Century QUOTES

The Form of Things: Essays on Life, Ideas and Liberty in the 21st Century QUOTES

1 " A mature society is one that reserves its moral outrage for what really matters: poverty and preventable diseases in the third world, arms sales, oppression, injustice. Bad language and sex might offend some, who certainly have a right to complain; but they do not have a right to censor. They do not have to watch or listen if they are offended: they have an 'off' button on their television sets and radios. After all, it is morally outrageous that moral outrage should be used as an excuse to perpetrate the outrage of censorship on others. "

― A.C. Grayling , The Form of Things: Essays on Life, Ideas and Liberty in the 21st Century