[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Better take a good look at your own lives before you go preaching to me your definitions of obscenity. — The Ramones Copy Share Image
History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity. — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
The definition of obscenity on the newsstands should be extended to many hunting magazines. — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity. — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
Parents, just keep in mind that kids will always round off to the nearest obscenity.. — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind,… — Theodore Schroeder Copy Share Image
The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
It's a mistake, you know. You have no idea what you'll be exposed to...the obscenities and lewd comments, the lecherous gazes, the… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you. — Kurt Vonnegut 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
Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I start at the beginning, mentally screaming every obscenity I can in alphabetical order. Then I start setting them to the tune… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
It is not the idea as such which the censor attacks, whether it be heresy or radicalism or obscenity. He attacks the… — Walter Lippmann 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
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
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
I was a kid and it was kind of scabrous, and it wasn't the sacrilege that bothered me so much as the… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
A: There is no grand scheme of things. B: If there were a grand scheme of things, the fact – the fact… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Anger has become one of the trendiest emotions of all. In moderation it can be a righteous force for constructive change. But… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some… — Mark Twain 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
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
I'm the first artist of any kind, good or bad, that was ever prosecuted by the Federal Government. Thirdly, they used the… — Harry Reems Copy Share Image
Naturally Shirley had known, as they slid stock words and phrases back and forth between them like beads on an abacus, that… — Anonymous 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
“No more peeping through keyholes! No more mas turbating in the dark! No more public confessions! Unscrew the doors from their jambs!… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I don't see [the jungle] so much erotic. I see it more full of obscenity. It's just - Nature here is vile… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“One can only pity those dirty little minds that see obscenity in the crotch of every tree.” — Gerry Burnie 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
Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it. — Jef I Richards Copy Share Image
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. — Christopher Hitchens 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
That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity. — John Donne Copy Share Image
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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