Obscene Quotes
122 quotes by 109 authors
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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
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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
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Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
— William J. Brennan
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War technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism.
— Stan Goff
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Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
— John Updike
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me.
— Larry Flynt
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Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.
— Mark Twain
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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
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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
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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
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The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.
— Dustin Hoffman
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Obscene Quotes
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