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«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
«Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.»
«Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Elderly
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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
| Keywords:
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
«Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.»
«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)
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blasphemy, devours, in secret, obscenity, secret societies, secret society
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