The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of… — Catherine Breillat Copy Share Image
The United States is a special case, and for me, very interesting. It's studied carefully and we know a lot about it.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this… — Gilbert Hernandez Copy Share Image
I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field. — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is such a thing as obscene sex, but I know that violence is always obscene. So I don't get it,… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
Terms such as obscene are used swiftly in order to protect people from exposure to the truth. — Thomas Hirschhorn Copy Share Image
Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live… — Lawrence M. Friedman Copy Share Image
But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance. — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
I think it's obscene that many people are starving to death from anorexia. It's been said many times, it's trite. But when… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene, and the rich were so mean. Stately homes for the Lords, croquet… — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I'd never touch anything. I think it's foolhardy to play around with the face that you've been given. To have a little… — George Michael Copy Share Image
Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker… — James Sinegal Copy Share Image
Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions,… — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and… — Edward Elgar Copy Share Image
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