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I have in my mind an obscenity so great that I could vomit the most dreadful words and it wouldn't be enough!
— Georges Bataille
Manto had earlier been prosecuted in Lahore for obscenity, and one of the words alleged to have been obscene was, breasts
— Saadat Hasan Manto
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.
— Catherine Breillat
What is obscenity? And to whom?
— Allen Ginsberg
(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).
— James D. Watson
I look like a hooker.""A slut," I corrected. "Hookers have pastier complexions."
"The voice of experience, I'm sure. — Martyn V. Halm
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
— D.H. Lawrence
I obscenity in the milk of my shame.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Our crucifixes exhibit the pain, but they veil, perhaps necessarily, the obscenity: but the death of the God-Man was both.
— Charles Williams
They told me I was not to draw.
— Mike Diana
The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.
— Phyllis Schlafly
History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.
— Holbrook Jackson
Profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.
— Brendan Gill
I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.
— Sheldon Harnick
Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
— D.H. Lawrence
Obscenity comes from grime.
— Christopher Hitchens
But if "beauty" is in the eye of the beholder, so is "obscenity.
— Sydney J. Harris
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
John could have prevented all of this from happening, but instead chose to educate us through the obscenity of proof.
— David Price
It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.
— Richard Preston
Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism.
— Sir John Woodroffe
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
— William J. Brennan Jr.
The definition of obscenity on the newsstands should be extended to many hunting magazines.
— Wayne Pacelle
I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone ... I think, myself, that it is an obscenity ...
— Desmond Tutu
Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.
— Kevin Bales
What are you doing now, you lazy drunken obscene unsayable son of an unnameable unmarried gipsy obscenity? What are you doing?
— Ernest Hemingway,
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The Bible has noble poetry in it ... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
— Mark Twain
Commercial speech is like obscenity ... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
— Jef I. Richards
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.
— Christopher Hitchens
I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.
— Jean Shepherd
Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.
— Christina Stead
The only time they appear human is when you have a knife at their throats. The instant you remove it, they fall back into animality. Obscenity.
— Jack Henry Abbott
