Cases Quote by Larry Flynt

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

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

— Christopher Hitchens

“Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on…

— A.P

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

— Jane Alexander

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

— Bertrand Russell

What is obscenity? And to whom?

— Allen Ginsberg

If laws banning nudity are not provided, laws against decency ought not be considered let alone being established

— Abbakhuwa

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

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 the distinguishing hallmark of a sadly limited vocabulary.”

— Gail Honeyman

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

— Betty Smith

Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.

— Anonymous