Obscene Quotes
122 Obscene quotes by 106 unique authors
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The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties…
— Thomas Paine
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But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene.
— Damien Hirst
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I vote Democrat because I believe oil companies profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon…
— David Letterman
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Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.
— Natalie Portman
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It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be…
— Havelock Ellis
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
— Thomas Hobbes
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I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make…
— Michael Moore
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Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
— Carroll O'Connor
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The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't…
— Dan Quayle
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Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor…
— James Sinegal
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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the…
— Susan Sontag
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'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street…
— Matt Taibbi
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I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none.…
— Ayelet Waldman
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If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from…
— Anne Graham Lotz
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Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if…
— Tom Robbins
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How can my ankles and arms be obscene?
— Libba Bray
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The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
— Emile M. Cioran
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XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly obscene (lady i…
— E E Cummings
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If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his…
— Wilfred Owen
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Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending…
— Dean Koontz
Who Wrote These Obscene Quotes
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