'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
Whether my acting was obscene, or whether it was distasteful, well, Judge Rehnquist, who just recently passed away couldn't define pornography. His… — Harry Reems Copy Share Image
I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who… — Jason Isaacs Copy Share Image
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
War technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism. — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished,… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The growing gap between rich and poor, the seeming lack of concern for the health and well-being of ordinary people, the obscene… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
guilt is the cause of more marauders than history's most obscene disauders — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That I ever think for one minute that I should ever feel lonely is obscene and unreasonable. — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene. — Justin Welby Copy Share Image
Dream of a world where poverty is history, dream of a world where we don't spend those obscene billions on arms, knowing… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Man's drive for self-expression, which over the centuries has built his monuments, does not stay within its bounds; the creations which yesterday… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
