"If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship."

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Source : Irving Kristol (1983). “Reflections of a neoconservative: looking back, looking ahead”, Basic Books (AZ)

Irving Kristol

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“I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.”

Source : "A life in art: Anselm Kiefer" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2011.
“I tend to look at potential investments from the standpoint of whether it is a valuable contribution to society.”
“I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.”
“Future generations will judge us not by what we say, but what we do.”
“administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts!”
“I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather go for lunch with my friends than go to a gym.”
“Everything is possible for the believer. I have watched impure souls mad for physical love but turning what they know of such love into a reason for penance and transferring that same capacity for love to the Lord. I have watched them master fear so as to drive themselves unsparingly toward the love of God. That is why, when talking of that chaste harlot, the Lord does not say, 'because she feared,' but rather, 'because she loved much' she was able to drive out love with love (Lk. 7:47).”
“What activities, behaviors, or decisions have been most responsible for your success in life? Do more of them.”

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