Obscenity quotes
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Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.
-- Brendan Gill -
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 -
History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.
-- Holbrook Jackson -
Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.
-- Kevin Bales -
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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 -
... 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 -
What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?
-- Rex Stout -
It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.
-- Richard Preston -
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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 -
I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.
-- Sheldon Harnick
