It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“But if "beauty" is in the eye of the beholder, so is "obscenity.” — Sydney J. Harris 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
“One can only pity those dirty little minds that see obscenity in the crotch of every tree.” — Gerry Burnie Copy Share Image
“Obscenity is the distinguishing hallmark of a sadly limited vocabulary.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
The definition of obscenity on the newsstands should be extended to many hunting magazines. — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while. — Jean Harris Copy Share Image
The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world… — John Burdett 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
Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre--the novel designed on purpose to… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it. — Jef I Richards 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
And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive.… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The… — Germaine Greer 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
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
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
“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
War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many… — Queen Noor of Jordan 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
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
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
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
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
History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity. — Holbrook Jackson 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 cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism. — Sir John Woodroffe Copy Share Image
The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
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