In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success,… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
“Beware, above all else, of cultivating humanitarian sentiments. Humanitarianism is a vulgarity. I write coldly, rationally, thinking of your own good, you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I'm one of the few reading and thinking people who loves Las Vegas for the vulgarity and omnipresence of the dream. The… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I deplore with you the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't like the vulgarity of Oscars weekend, but it's also sweet. It's prom weekend for anyone who didn't experience the real… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I lost the love of all the homosexuals in the world by saying that Princess Diana was trash and got what she… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those… — Charles W. Pickering Copy Share Image
'Biutiful' is a tough film. It doesn't make concessions to the vulgarity of light entertainment. It's not the kind of film that… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
