Sex and obscenity are not synonymous.

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

— Anonymous

The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is…

— Catherine Breillat

“Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.”

— Henry Miller

Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticatedstory is a dirty story. Some…

— Dorothy Parker

Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.

— Christina Stead

... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

— Ellen Glasgow

Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens…

— John Howard Griffin

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its…

— Herbert Marcuse

The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders…

— F. Sionil José

“​It is Obscene to keep Printing Newspapers in the Digital Era”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Only in intimacy with obscenity can one know what is obscene.”

— Wayne C. Booth

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 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

'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the…

— Elizabeth Warren

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

— Charlotte Bronte