Prurient Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest. — William J. Brennan
Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized… — George Gilder
O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy… — E E Cummings
An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating. — Marie Stopes
The spectacle of a judge pouring over the picture of some nude, trying to ascertain the extent to which she arouses prurient interests, and then… — Thurman Arnold
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor… — Samuel Johnson
Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest. — William J. Brennan
Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! â€” ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then… — Walt Whitman
Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality. — Carl Jung
Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather… — Christopher Hitchens
Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism. — Christopher Moore
The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much. — Aldous Huxley
With prurient absorption and only minimal risk, we can pretend to be the subject of the lead article on the front page of the Style… — Joanna Scott

Who Wrote These Prurient Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 13 Prurient Quotes as follows: