Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Die Menschen haben, wie es scheint, die Sprache nicht empfangen, um die Gedanken zu verbergen, sondern um zu verbergen, daß sie keine Gedanken haben.
The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting
from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction. ~D.H. Lawrence