Only in intimacy with obscenity can one know what is…

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

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous.

— Lenny Bruce

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

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— John Donne

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

— Christopher Hitchens