Altars Quote by Richard Posner

MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly…

— Richard Posner

“Some writers have even argued that it may be possible to wean sex offenders away from their criminal activities through the use of pornography…

— Richard Dunphy

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present,…

— E. M. Forster

“The books he and his supporters wanted out of the schools, one of mine among them, were not pornographic, although he would have liked…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Dark, was banned by the Irish state censor for obscenity. The story was set, as so much of McGahern's later fiction would be, in…

— John McGahern

“Thus Hawkes (1975)maintained that pornography is not explicit sex, but 'uncaring sex,' but could add that '[t]o me, censorship is pornographic.”

— Martha Cornog

One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“The mommy-porn genre currently sweeping the book industry and the Babylonian excess of most television shows probably fall within the historical norm in our…

— Dean Koontz

While the Obama Department of Justice seems to favor pornographers over children and families, that will change under a Satorum Administration. I will ban…

— Rick Santorum

Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?

— Storm Jameson

Pornography has become rationalized. It's become much more coherent and profitable.

— David Simon

...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise…

— Irving Kristol