Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism. — Sir John Woodroffe Copy Share Image
“I know it when I see it Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964), concurring op.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts. — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. — Bertrand Russell 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
This is not sadly, today being promoted obscenity in the name of modernity, and, sadly is that, younger generation are happily assimilated… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming… — Rod Serling 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
I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious. — Sheldon Harnick 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
“Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“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
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
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
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
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
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
you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the… — Tim O'Brien 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
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
Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticatedstory is a dirty… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the… — Robin Morgan 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
“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
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
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
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
“One can only pity those dirty little minds that see obscenity in the crotch of every tree.” — Gerry Burnie Copy Share Image
“But if "beauty" is in the eye of the beholder, so is "obscenity.” — Sydney J. Harris 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
Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity. — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Parents, just keep in mind that kids will always round off to the nearest obscenity.. — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
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