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Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence…

— Theodore Schroeder

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

— Christopher Hitchens

All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that the censors…

— Christopher Hitchens

Better take a good look at your own lives before you go preaching to me your definitions of obscenity.

— The Ramones

“For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind…

— Margaret Bald

“Obscenity is the distinguishing hallmark of a sadly limited vocabulary.”

— Gail Honeyman

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.

— Studs Terkel

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its…

— Herbert Marcuse

One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.

— Bennett Cerf

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

— Brendan Gill

The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is…

— Catherine Breillat

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

— William O. Douglas