Quotes by Obscenity What is obscenity? And to whom? Allen Ginsberg obscenity Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts. Brendan Gill obscenity notable art Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life. Christina Stead obscenity likes real 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. David Mitchell obscenity becoming people I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . . Desmond Tutu obscenity death-penalty thinking Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent. E. B. White obscenity murder writing My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. Edward Gibbon obscenity obscurity language Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war. Henry Miller obscenity war sex History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity. Holbrook Jackson obscenity prove book Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life. Kevin Bales obscenity slavery stealing 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. Larry Flynt obscenity individual community Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Lenny Bruce obscene obscenity sex 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. Mark Twain obscenity animal men Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground - situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks. Marshall McLuhan obscenity favors figures ... Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when one was in the middle of being blown to monatomic dust. Matthew Woodring Stover obscenity middle dust I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that. Potter Stewart obscenity succeed kind I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it. Potter Stewart obscenity kind today What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature? Rex Stout obscenity literature trials It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty. Richard Preston obscenity extremes kind I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious. Sheldon Harnick obscenity curious used 12»
