Oscar Wilde

My thoughts on Oscar Wilde:
His quotes are to me like the tinkering of bells, making much noise about every passing wind, but hollow in reason, evidence, and inspiration. The voice of warning is useless when the terrain is not well-lit.His life only exemplifies to me a man angry at society's ills, but ignorant on the proper course of action. Like an animal, upon seeing one trap in front, backs into two traps to the rear and falls victim to a worse fate, so is the life and tragedy of this man, Oscar Wilde.

It is by the life of a man that his philosophies are best judged, for if his reasoning is sound then so will be his life, but if not, then his life will fail, as an example to all who would follow afterward.
“A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.” Lawrence G. Lovasik
"Neither irony or sarcasm is argument." Samuel Butler, Rufus Choate
"A sneer is the weapon of the weak." James Russell Lowell
"Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. " Agnes Repplier
“What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.” Don Williams, Jr.

For those who would censor these thoughts or others, I say that it is better to learn wisdom than to complain about ideas that needlessly bother you. I hear your censorship, and freely and openly refuse you.
"Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real. Somewhere in their upbringing they were shielded against the total facts of our experience. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist."Charles Bukowski
"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame."Oscar Wilde"Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective."William O. Douglas
"All despotisms should be considered problems of mental hygiene, and all support of censorship should be considered as problems of abnormal psychology."Theodore Schroeder
"All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions."George Bernard Shaw