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
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
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
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
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
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
When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Even a mentally challenged shark would figure out that sea turtles did not wear boxer shorts printed in flying piggies, and no… — Christopher Moore 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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