Obscenity Quote by Sir John Woodroffe Download Open image “Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism.” — Sir John Woodroffe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Obscenity People Symbolism Western
The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where… — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism. — Aaron Eckhart Copy Share Image
Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“In Western tradition, white is beautiful because it is the colour of virtue. This remarkable equation relates to a particular definition of goodness. All… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
An examination of Indian Vedic doctrines shows that it is in tune with the most advanced scientific and philosophical thought of the West. — Sir John Woodroffe Copy Share Image
A Mantra is composed of certain letters arranged in definite sequence of sounds, of which the letters are the representative signs. To produce the… — Sir John Woodroffe Copy Share Image
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity. — John Donne Copy Share Image
The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life. — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is not sadly, today being promoted obscenity in the name of modernity, and, sadly is that, younger generation are happily assimilated are pornography, — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation. — Lina Wertmuller Copy Share Image
The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
