Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts. — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
Parents, just keep in mind that kids will always round off to the nearest obscenity.. — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity. — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
“Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
In other words, [ H.P. Lovecraft] was areligious, asexual, neurasthenic, he just didn't want to react to the world. Like Virginia Woolf,… — Paul Laffoley 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
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
That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity. — John Donne 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
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
Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When science shall have effectually demonstrated to us the origin of matter, and proved the fallacy of the occultists and old philosophers… — H. P. Blavatsky 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
Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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
“Interestingly, the historic case of 1868 in England that first defined obscenity-known among lawyers as the Hicklin decision- evolved out of the… — Gay Talese 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
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
“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
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on… — Irving Kristol 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
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
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
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
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
![“In other words, [ H.P. Lovecraft] was areligious, asexual, neurasthenic, he just didn't want to react to the world. Like Virginia Woolf, who considered religion the ultimate obscenity.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a34/paul-laffoley-7077_asexual_in-other-words-h-p-lovecraft-was-areligi_2293724.jpg)
![“In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of drapery, the painter has placed Cupid's foot between Venus's thighs. Queen Caroline asked General Guise, an old connoisseur, if it was not a very fine piece? He replied "Madam, the…” quote by Horace Walpole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/095/horace-walpole-3357_bits_in-the-drawing-room-of-the-queen-s-palac_2462665.jpg)
![“I don't see [the jungle] so much erotic. I see it more full of obscenity. It's just - Nature here is vile and base. I wouldn't see anything erotical here. I would see fornication and asphyxiation and choking and fighting for survival and growing and just rotting away. Of course, there's a lot of…” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b3/werner-herzog-964_asphyxiation_i-don-t-see-the-jungle-so-much-erotic-i_1128692.jpg)
