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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.»
Author: Herbert Marcuse
| Keywords:
abuses, applying, arsenal, arsenals, establishment, expressions, obscenity, The Establishment, verbal
«Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.»
Author: William J. Brennan, Jr.
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
appealing, deals, obscene, obscenity, prurient, sex appeal
«Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Elderly
| Keywords:
elderly, magistrate, obscenity, shock
«Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.»
«It is as though our languages were in state of confusion: when we want an idea they bring us a word, when we require a word they bring us a dash, and when we expected a dash there stands an obscenity.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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obscenity
«Obscenity can be found in every book except the telephone directory.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
directory, obscenity, telephone book, telephone directory
«Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity- these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them.»
«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.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
| Keywords:
blasphemy, devours, in secret, obscenity, secret societies, secret society
