Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
Jef I. Richards

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.
Jane Alexander

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.
Henry Miller

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

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Bertrand Russell

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
David Herbert Lawrence

The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.
Phyllis Schlafly

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.
Roman Polanski