Obscene Quotes - Page 2

• Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.

  Christina Stead

  Real, Likes, Obscenity

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.213, The Miegunyah Press

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• I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Dirty, Book

  "Bananas". www.imdb.com. 1971.

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• 'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world's wealth - and nobody went to jail.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Jail, Facts

  "Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. February 16, 2011.

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• Abortion is the only event that modern liberals think too violent and obscene to portray on TV. This is not because they are squeamish or prudish. It is because if people knew what Abortion really looked like, it would destroy their pretence that it is a civilized answer to the problem of what to do about unwanted babies.

  Peter Hitchens

  Baby, Thinking, People

  "A calamity for women... just as the doctor predicted" by Peter Hitchens, www.dailymail.co.uk. October 27, 2007.

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• The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene.

  Catherine Breillat

  Trying, Problem, Absurd

  "The joy of sex" by Libby Brooks, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2001.

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• What is more obscene: the idea that one can apologize for the hubris and deceit that is Obama and his health care, or the actual need some have for an apology from an entity so evil that he would toy with the lives of millions as though they were insects and he God? This is hard to tell.

  Ilana Mercer

  Apology, Ideas, Evil

  "Obama: Love Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry". www.wnd.com. November 15, 2013.

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• But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene.

  Damien Hirst

  Judgement, Standards

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• Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.

  John Updike

  Flower, Giving, Natural

  John Updike (2012). “Assorted Prose”, p.207, Random House

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• I don't care if you're obscene, filthy, horrendous -- as long as you're honest.

  Bill Hicks

  Long, Care, Honest

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• I celebrate myself," the poet Walt Whitman wrote. The thought is so delicious it is almost obscene. Imagine the joy that would come with celebrating the self — our achievements, our experiences, our existence. Imagine what it would be like to look into the mirror and say, as God taught us, "That's good.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Mirrors, Self, Taught Us

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• As real as,' said Eddie. 'As real as what?' said Jack. 'Wish I knew,' said Eddie. 'But I can't do corroborative nouns. None of us are perfect, are we? I can get started. As big as, as obscene as, as foul as. But I can't get any further. But that's life for you again. As unfair as...

  Robert Rankin

  Real, Perfect, Wish

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• XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly obscene (lady i will touch you with my mind.)Touch you,that is all, lightly and you utterly will become with infinite care the poem which i do not write.

  e. e. cummings

  Writing, Giving, Mind

  E. E. Cummings (2001). “Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings”, p.76, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Man's drive for self-expression, which over the centuries has built his monuments, does not stay within its bounds; the creations which yesterday were detested and the obscene become the classics of today.

  Mathew Tobriner

  Men, Yesterday, Self

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• The script was classic Joe Eszterhas, intelligent, steamy and provocative. At one time, Eszterhas was Hollywood's highest paid writer, illiterate rock and roll bad boy whose 14 films glorified sex, drugsa nd cigarettes. Eszterhas also fought publicly with producers and politicians. In 1995 he argued that some of the misdeeds of the Nixon, Reagan and Bush administrations were more obscene than anything in an "R" rated movie.

  David Shuster

  Sex, Boys, Intelligent

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• How can my ankles and arms be obscene?

  Libba Bray

  Ankles, Arms

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.

  R. C. Sproul

  Dignity, Crosses, Testimony

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• Terms such as obscene are used swiftly in order to protect people from exposure to the truth.

  Thomas Hirschhorn

  Order, People, Used

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• I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets.

  Sara Gruen

  Ears, Strain, Picks

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• You have to lead your life according to your ideas. Spend all your money and live life in line with what you are fighting for. I hate it when rich people try to be Communists. I think that’s obscene.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hate, Live Life, Fighting

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• Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticatedstory is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a "sophisticate" means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other.

  Dorothy Parker

  Dirty, Mean, Ivory

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• Only the chaste are truly obscene.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Chaste

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• The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace.

  John Lennon

  People, Hypocrisy, Smoking

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• Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.

  Natalie Portman

  Laughing, Hip Hop, Want

  Interview with Jake Gyllenhaal, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2009.

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• When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.

  Robin Morgan

  People, Catholic, Religion

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• I think it's sad that we live in a world where men can steal and distribute and publish photos of women without their permission all over the Internet and even in print and make a lot of money doing so, but half naked photos that I took of myself are deemed "obscene."

  Marie Calloway

  Men, Thinking, Naked

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. March 19, 2013.

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