History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity. — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
“Obscenity is the distinguishing hallmark of a sadly limited vocabulary.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“But if "beauty" is in the eye of the beholder, so is "obscenity.” — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“One can only pity those dirty little minds that see obscenity in the crotch of every tree.” — Gerry Burnie Copy Share Image
When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation. — Lina Wertmuller Copy Share Image
... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“The only time they appear human is when you have a knife at their throats. The instant you remove it, they fall… — Jack Henry Abbott Copy Share Image
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make… — Rouben Mamoulian Copy Share Image
The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
This is not sadly, today being promoted obscenity in the name of modernity, and, sadly is that, younger generation are happily assimilated… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
The greatest issue is to raise the question of birth control out of the gutter of obscenity ... into the light of… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum - its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly… — Jack Parsons Copy Share Image
I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA]… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
... Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's deeply rooted in the American psyche. Black men have always been viewed as the other, which leads to a different application… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography),… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
Anger has become one of the trendiest emotions of all. In moderation it can be a righteous force for constructive change. But… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Berkshire's whole record has been achieved without paying one ounce of attention to the efficient market theory in its hard form. And… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I'm against suppression of pornography. If you suppress guns - yes; if you want to suppress poverty - yes. These are the… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
I don't see [the jungle] so much erotic. I see it more full of obscenity. It's just - Nature here is vile… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“No more peeping through keyholes! No more mas turbating in the dark! No more public confessions! Unscrew the doors from their jambs!… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda Copy Share Image
Naturally Shirley had known, as they slid stock words and phrases back and forth between them like beads on an abacus, that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Parents, just keep in mind that kids will always round off to the nearest obscenity.. — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity. — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts. — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . . — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
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![“I don't see [the jungle] so much erotic. I see it more full of obscenity. It's just - Nature here is vile and base. I wouldn't see anything erotical here. I would see fornication and asphyxiation and choking and fighting for survival and growing and just rotting away. Of course, there's a lot of…” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1b3/werner-herzog-964_asphyxiation_i-don-t-see-the-jungle-so-much-erotic-i_1128692.jpg)
