Obscenity Quotes

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

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.

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.

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

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.

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

Obscenity comes from grime.

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.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

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.

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.