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Censorship: an argument by quotation

Posted on June 1st, 2008 by by Chris Lawson

Theodore Schroeder:
Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot be defined in terms of the qualities of a book or picture.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec:
A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?
Bertrand Russell:
Lord [...]