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Obscenity Quotes

Brendan Gill quote: "Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at..."
Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts. Brendan Gill
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the..."
Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind. David Herbert Lawrence
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. Herbert Marcuse
James Sinegal quote: "Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company."
Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. James Sinegal
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Bertrand Russell quote: "Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and..."
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. Bertrand Russell
Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys. Andy Rooney
I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am. Jason Isaacs
Henry Miller quote: "Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war."
Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war. Henry Miller
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, to an outsider. The eucharist is just sublimated cannibalism, to the unawakened. When the Pope kisses the feet of the laity, he looks like an old toe-queen to some people. The rites of Pan look like a suburban orgy. Robert Anton Wilson
There’s something obscene in this love of the past which ends in breadlines and dugouts. Something obscene about this spiritual racket which permits an idiot to sprinkle holy water over Big Berthas and dreadnoughts and high explosives. Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. Henry Miller
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great. Havelock Ellis
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest. William J. Brennan
Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary.' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities. William S. Burroughs
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

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