Terms such as obscene are used swiftly in order to protect people from exposure to the truth. — Thomas Hirschhorn Copy Share Image
I think it's obscene. I don't know how you support the monarchy. How can you do that? — William Klein Copy Share Image
“What might be merely embarrassing in real life is made obscene and hostile by TV.” — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
I don't care if you're obscene, filthy, horrendous -- as long as you're honest. — Bill Hicks 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
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
I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person… — Richard Attenborough 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
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
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
There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf constantly HOWLS… — William James 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
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like… — John Updike Copy Share Image
It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Has the art of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene, and low down, andits… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
As I travelled around Australia, strangers in pubs, on airplanes, in beach parking lots would bring up Gina Rinehart, not knowing I… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
Abortion is the only event that modern liberals think too violent and obscene to portray on TV. This is not because they… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Letterwriting is the natural outlet of the "odds." The busy-bodies, the idle, the perverted, the cranks, the feel-it-my-duties ... Also the plain… — Josephine Tey 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
All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given… — Marcel Proust 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
'This thing I feel, I can't name it straight out but it seems important, do you feel it too?' — this sort… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
“THE HOLE The hole is something which longs to be filled. The small child is drawn as if by magic to holes.… — Jean-Paul Sartre 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
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
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