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«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.»
Author: Herbert Marcuse | Keywords: abuses, applying, arsenal, arsenals, establishment, expressions, obscenity, The Establishment, verbal
«Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.»
Author: William J. Brennan, Jr. | About: Sex | Keywords: appealing, deals, obscene, obscenity, prurient, sex appeal
«Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.»
Author: Jef I. Richards | About: Speech, Trade | Keywords: obscenity
«Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.»
Author: Bertrand Russell (Logician, Philosopher) | About: Elderly | Keywords: elderly, magistrate, obscenity, shock
«Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: obscenity
«It is as though our languages were in state of confusion: when we want an idea they bring us a word, when we require a word they bring us a dash, and when we expected a dash there stands an obscenity.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | Keywords: obscenity
«Obscenity can be found in every book except the telephone directory.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw (Critic, Essayist, Playwright) | Keywords: directory, obscenity, telephone book, telephone directory
«Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.»
Author: Henry Miller (Author, Writer) | Keywords: murk, obscenity
«Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity- these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: Among the, animals, confined, confining, indecencies, indecency, invented, obscenity, strictly, trace, tracing, vulgarity
«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.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | Keywords: blasphemy, devours, in secret, obscenity, secret societies, secret society
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