It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty. — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff. — D. H. Lawrence 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 writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense… — Renata Adler 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
“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
Better take a good look at your own lives before you go preaching to me your definitions of obscenity. — The Ramones 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
Let children come across good as well as bad things. MTV is unnecessarily criticised for dishing out obscenity. — Asha Bhosle 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
“Man’s inhumanity to man, unleashed, was an obscenity, and that obscenity was each person’s own private responsibility.” — Rosamunde Pilcher 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
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
I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . . — Desmond Tutu 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
“The only time they appear human is when you have a knife at their throats. The instant you remove it, they fall… — Jack Henry Abbott Copy Share Image
I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living… — Jane Alexander Copy Share Image
The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make… — Rouben Mamoulian Copy Share Image
Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
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