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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… — Richard Attenborough
- At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Ralph Ellison
- There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words… — Ernest Hemingway
- Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it… — 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… — Gil Garcetti
- If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me. — Larry Flynt