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Sex and obscenity are not synonymous.
Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.
Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.
What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?
Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism.
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.
Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.
History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.
Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.
Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.
I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.
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.
People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.
Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground - situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks.
... Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when one was in the middle of being blown to monatomic dust.
Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.
I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.