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 obscenitynotableart Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life. Christina Stead obscenitylikesreal 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 obscenitybecomingpeople I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . . Desmond Tutu obscenitydeath-penaltythinking Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent. E. B. White obscenitymurderwriting My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. Edward Gibbon obscenityobscuritylanguage Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war. Henry Miller obscenitywarsex History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity. Holbrook Jackson obscenityprovebook Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life. Kevin Bales obscenityslaverystealing 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 obscenityindividualcommunity Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Lenny Bruce obsceneobscenitysex 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 obscenityanimalmen 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 obscenityfavorsfigures ... 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 obscenitymiddledust 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 obscenitysucceedkind I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it. Potter Stewart obscenitykindtoday What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature? Rex Stout obscenityliteraturetrials It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty. Richard Preston obscenityextremeskind I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious. Sheldon Harnick obscenitycuriousused12»
