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If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.
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Pornography, Obscenity, and the Case for Censorship (1995)

 

Irving Kristol

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Doris Lessing

 

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John Kenneth Galbraith

 

Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship.

 

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