It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity. — John Donne 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
Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism. — Sir John Woodroffe Copy Share Image
There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life. — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff. — D. H. Lawrence 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
This is not sadly, today being promoted obscenity in the name of modernity, and, sadly is that, younger generation are happily assimilated… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation. — Lina Wertmuller Copy Share Image
The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable… — Dorothy Parker 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
“he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, and a… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum - its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly… — Jack Parsons Copy Share Image
It is not unfortunate that today, obscenity is being encourages in the name of modernity; unfortunate is that the young generation is… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive.… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
Man was the outlaw, the rebel, the distorted shape that scarred the earth, the voice that silenced the music of Eden, the… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda Copy Share Image
The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while. — Jean Harris Copy Share Image
