Indecent Quotes
66 Indecent quotes by 56 unique authors
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The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are…
— Bernardine Dohrn
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The definition of indecent – when it’s in long, and it’s in hard, and it’s in deep – it’s in decent.
— Redd Foxx
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
— F. H. Bradley
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Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then…
— Walt Whitman
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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but…
— Henry Adams
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We have hearts within, Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological,…
— Bertrand Russell
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the…
— Laura Kightlinger
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And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Art is an indecent exposure of the consciousness.
— Herbert Read
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If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested…
— Michael J. Fox
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I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.
— Francois Hollande
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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
— D. H. Lawrence
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If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't…
— Harold MacMillan
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Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason…
— George H. Mead
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A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
— Milan Kundera
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I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a…
— George Bernard Shaw
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great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me…
— Charles Bukowski
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You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm…
— Milan Kundera
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The bite of conscience is indecent.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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