Obscenity Quotes

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This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people.

Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.

Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot be defined in terms of the qualities of a book or picture.

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.

I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.

Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.

Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?

Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting it out for second and third place.

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

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

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism.

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

The definition of obscenity on the newsstands should be extended to many hunting magazines.

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

There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.

I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .

What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?

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.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

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

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.

People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.

Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.

What is obscenity? And to whom?

I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.

Parents, just keep in mind that kids will always round off to the nearest obscenity.

In other words, [ H.P. Lovecraft] was areligious, asexual, neurasthenic, he just didn't want to react to the world. Like Virginia Woolf, who considered religion the ultimate obscenity.

Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence, and no obscenity save the tyranny of custom.

Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.

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

The greatest issue is to raise the question of birth control out of the gutter of obscenity ... into the light of intelligence and human understanding.

I start at the beginning, mentally screaming every obscenity I can in alphabetical order. Then I start setting them to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat

That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.

The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.

(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).

The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition.

​It is Obscene to keep Printing Newspapers in the Digital Era

I know it when I see itJacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964), concurring op.

Nothing is more pleasing than to see an arrogant prick fail.

Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends.