Top 94 Obscenity Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.

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

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

A: There is no grand scheme of things. B: If there were a grand scheme of things, the fact – the fact – that we are not equipped to perceive it, either by natural or supernatural means, is a nightmarish obscenity. C: The very notion of a grand scheme of things is a nightmarish obscenity.

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.

Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism.

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.

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

The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.

What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?

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.

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.

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 is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

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.

And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.

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

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

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

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous.

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

The concept of 'obscenity' is tested when one dares to look at something that he has an unbearable desire to see but has forbidden himself to look at. When one feels that everything that one had wanted to see has been revealed, 'obscenity' disappears, the taboo disappears as well, and there is a certain liberation.

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

Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.

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

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

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

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

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.

Two weeks before Owen Hart's death I objected in writing to the obscenity and the safety.

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident. But that doesn't mean being sugary.

Let children come across good as well as bad things. MTV is unnecessarily criticised for dishing out 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.

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.

Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.

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.

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.

... 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.

What is obscenity? And to whom?

Obscenity comes from grime.

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

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

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.

When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.

I was a kid and it was kind of scabrous, and it wasn't the sacrilege that bothered me so much as the obscenity that challenged a 14-year-old American. But over the years, I came to have a keen appreciation of Charlie Hebdo and what it did.

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.

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

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

When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.

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

We who have witnessed the obscenity of war and experienced its horror and terrible consequences have an obligation to rise above our pain and suffering and turn the tragedy of our lives into a triumph.

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

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.