The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember being in high school in the '90s, and even then somehow hearing about the the Canadian Supreme Court's Butler decision… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
You have to lead your life according to your ideas. Spend all your money and live life in line with what you… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I don't care if you're obscene, filthy, horrendous -- as long as you're honest. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair. — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
So much of my work involved the Vietnam War that it would have been obscene to show it in a gallery. But… — Martha Rosler Copy Share Image
At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The federal government, state governments will not do without that tax revenue from tobacco no matter what. I've always thought it was… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Tout ce qui est anachronique est obsce' ne. Everything anachronistic is obscene. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Basically, the prosecutor who led case against me and that administration were trying to say that an actor can be held responsible… — Harry Reems Copy Share Image
