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
“Obscenity is the distinguishing hallmark of a sadly limited vocabulary.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk. — Henry Miller 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
Sadly, no, being encouraging obscenity in the name of modernity today, sadly, are, happily, has been assimilated pornography younger generation, — Mak_786 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
I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . . — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born. — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Let children come across good as well as bad things. MTV is unnecessarily criticised for dishing out obscenity. — Asha Bhosle Copy Share Image
“Man’s inhumanity to man, unleashed, was an obscenity, and that obscenity was each person’s own private responsibility.” — Rosamunde Pilcher 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
