“Janet Reno did not feel comfortable enforcing obscenity laws. She didn't want to do it, and nobody made her do it.”
Bruce Taylor
“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.
“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
“In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.”
Robert Bresson
“It's vulgar, but not like grabbing your crotch, not that bad an obscenity.”
Joseph Gannascoli
“Lack of identity, father's never bein' themselves. That's an obscenity - how could we allow this to dwell?”
Dedrick D. L. Pitter
“It's not just Palmeiro but a lot of these guys have put up numbers that border on the obscene, ... And when you think they've done it illegally when so many guys did it the right way, it's hard to stomach.”
Carlton Fisk
