“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
“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.
“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
“Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so”
Mark Twain
“A question mark is not obscene. I don't know where Mesa County is coming from.”
Cheryl Morris
“Janet Reno did not feel comfortable enforcing obscenity laws. She didn't want to do it, and nobody made her do it.”
Bruce Taylor
