What is obscenity? And to whom?

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

— Christopher Hitchens

When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.

— Lina Wertmuller

What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?

— Rex Stout

This is not sadly, today being promoted obscenity in the name of modernity, and, sadly is that, younger generation are happily assimilated are pornography,

— Mak_786

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

— Anonymous

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

— D. H. Lawrence

Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.

— Kevin Bales

Whether my acting was obscene, or whether it was distasteful, well, Judge Rehnquist, who just recently passed away couldn't define pornography. His comment on…

— Harry Reems

There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's…

— Margaret Atwood

Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism.

— Sir John Woodroffe

“They told me I was not to draw.”

— Mike Diana

The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too,…

— Robert Anton Wilson

“No more peeping through keyholes! No more mas turbating in the dark! No more public confessions! Unscrew the doors from their jambs! I want…

— Henry Miller

That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.

— John Donne

The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity…

— Dorothy Parker