(34 quotes found)
“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
“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 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
“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
“A question mark is not obscene. I don't know where Mesa County is coming from.”
Cheryl Morris
“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
“This process has gone from distasteful to obscene,”
Bruce Babbitt
