“Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the… — A.P 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
Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It… — Elihu Palmer 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 Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The definition of obscenity on the newsstands should be extended to many hunting magazines. — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
The concept of 'obscenity' is tested when one dares to look at something that he has an unbearable desire to see but… — Nagisa Oshima Copy Share Image
This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people. — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
The greatest issue is to raise the question of birth control out of the gutter of obscenity ... into the light of… — Margaret Sanger 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
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
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
Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground - situations in which the human factor… — Marshall McLuhan 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
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
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
I'm against suppression of pornography. If you suppress guns - yes; if you want to suppress poverty - yes. These are the… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“I know it when I see it Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964), concurring op.” — Anonymous 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
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