Ears Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies.”

— Betty Smith

“Profanity is the name given to the defilement of the sanctity of human life.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

What is obscenity? And to whom?

— Allen Ginsberg

Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.

— Spencer W. Kimball

Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably.

— Randall Dale Adams

Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any form is…

— Joseph Fielding Smith

Profanity is merely an expression of one's emotions

— Alanis Morissette

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

— Gail Honeyman

Obscenity is the language of the inarticulate.

— Anonymous

Profanity is the crutch of a conversational cripple. . .

— Rick Sutter

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

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

— Herbert Marcuse