“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.
“Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so”
Mark Twain
“Lack of identity, father's never bein' themselves. That's an obscenity - how could we allow this to dwell?”
Dedrick D. L. Pitter
“Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing - with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for the second and third place.”
Robert A. Heinlein
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.”
Thomas Paine
“Obscenity can be found in every book except the telephone directory.”
George Bernard Shaw
“In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.”
Robert Bresson
