Obscene Quotes

122 quotes by 109 authors

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done… — Richard Attenborough
At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than… — Jean Baudrillard
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest. — William J. Brennan
War technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism. — Stan Goff
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us. — John Updike
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows… — John Updike
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. — Ralph Ellison
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory,… — Ernest Hemingway
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to… — Susan Sontag
I was a supporter and believer in the death penalty, but I've begun to see that this system doesn't work and it isn't functional. It… — Gil Garcetti
If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me. — Larry Flynt
Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories. — Mark Twain
There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf constantly HOWLS and the OBSCENE… — William James
Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and… — Benjamin Moser
The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene. — Catherine Breillat
The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest. — Dustin Hoffman
It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that… — Kathleen Turner
Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to mourn a dog. I think… — Charles Krauthammer
I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene. — Howard Stern

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