said something obscene.

“He picked up the biscuit box and said, "Come on, Marlene. Back into hiding in case somebody comes looking for you, although only God…

— Jennifer Crusie

Women should be obscene and not heard.

— Groucho Marx

War technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism.

— Stan Goff

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

— Ralph Ellison

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

— Anonymous

I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those…

— Jason Isaacs

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

“The worst possible sexual education: a taboo imposed by the Catholic church plus romantic literature elevating love to unreal heights plus the obscene language…

— Czeslaw Milosz

When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the…

— John Paul Stevens

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

The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected…

— Orrin Hatch

The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked…

— John Lennon

'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall…

— Matt Taibbi

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.

— Anonymous

I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts.

— Woody Allen