Top Obscenity Quotes
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
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
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
Phyllis Schlafly 
David Herbert Lawrence 
Roman Polanski 
Henry Miller 
Jane Alexander 
Percy Bysshe Shelley 
William J. Brennan, Jr. 
Bertrand Russell All Obscenity Quotes
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 
60% of people like this quote
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Bertrand Russell
58% of people like this quote
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
56% of people like this quote
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
David Herbert Lawrence
52% of people like this quote
The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.
Phyllis Schlafly
51% of people like this quote
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.
50% of people like this quote
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
47% of people like this quote
Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
Jef I. Richards
47% of people like this quote
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
47% of people like this quote
Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.
Henry Miller
43% of people like this quote