In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of… — Horace Walpole 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
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
Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Photographs have always been the tar baby of censors and obscenity laws. Literature can certainly (if it's any good) conjure up the… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
In families there are frequently matters of which no one speaks, nor even alludes. There are no words for these matters. As… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan. — Jean Shepherd Copy Share Image
We who have witnessed the obscenity of war and experienced its horror and terrible consequences have an obligation to rise above our… — Ron Kovic Copy Share Image
Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“If you don’t care for obscenity, you don’t care for the truth; if you don’t care for the truth, watch how you… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of… — Catherine Breillat Copy Share Image
Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography),… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
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