Obscenity
That quality in words or things which presents what is offensive to chasity or purity of mind; obscene or impure lanquage or acts; moral impurity; lewdness; obsceneness; as, the obscenity of a speech, or a picture.
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Obscenity Quotations
Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.
Henry Miller
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Bertrand Russell
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
David Herbert Lawrence
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
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
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
Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
Jef I. Richards
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.
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
The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.
Phyllis Schlafly
Obscenity Translations
obscenity in Italian is lascivia
obscenity in Spanish is obscenidad
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