Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I know it when I see it Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964), concurring op.” — Anonymous 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
Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism. — Sir John Woodroffe Copy Share Image
Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make… — Rouben Mamoulian Copy Share Image
... Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA]… — Desmond Tutu 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
“The only time they appear human is when you have a knife at their throats. The instant you remove it, they fall… — Jack Henry Abbott Copy Share Image
I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living… — Jane Alexander 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
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not toexpressions of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
It's deeply rooted in the American psyche. Black men have always been viewed as the other, which leads to a different application… — Marian Wright Edelman 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
Even a mentally challenged shark would figure out that sea turtles did not wear boxer shorts printed in flying piggies, and no… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved,… — Albert Camus 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
All I can say on the Guilford story - and this comes more from my perspective as a father than an artist… — Daniel Clowes 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
you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticatedstory is a dirty… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“The concept of “obscenity” is tested when we dare to look at something that we desire to see but have forbidden ourselves… — Nagisa Oshima Copy Share Image
Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the… — Robin Morgan 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
“8 April 1891 The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered in the street; the shifty… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Berkshire's whole record has been achieved without paying one ounce of attention to the efficient market theory in its hard form. And… — Charlie Munger 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
I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious. — Sheldon Harnick Copy Share Image
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