Pornography Quotes - Page 8

• I may not be able to define pornography but I know it when I see it.

  William Rehnquist

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• There were a lot of video store owners and managers out of work, once pornography became more about streaming and downloads. But the other thing is that there are a lot of people who make money by finding a place to stand and add almost nothing. It's particularly ironic if your job title is pimp. On some level, in a healthier world where sex work could be rationalized and the risk reduced, your whole job title would be extraneous anyway. It's not exactly a point of great grievance if you're a pimp that suddenly your prostitutes don't require the same level of reliance.

  David Simon

  People, Pimp, Risk

  Source: uproxx.com

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• I have to admit to you, I am the person who's done probably the least analysis on the selfie, because it's a bit like pornography for me. It's this masturbatory, repetitive act that I'd rather wasn't part of my routine.

  Charlotte Cotton

  Done, Repetitive

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Like an electric tea-kettle, pornography comes to a boil very fast.

  Mason Cooley

  Tea, Electric, Kettles

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• Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, drugs, the power of peer pressure-all these and more-cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin and crushed on the jagged reefs of lost opportunities, forfeited blessings, and shattered dreams.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Dream, Blessing, Opportunity

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• The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Pedants, Nudity

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• When I said on national television I still struggle, a reparative therapist called me and said if you'll come into therapy with me I can cure you of your temptations and attractions 100 percent. And then there are the offers of using homosexual pornography within the therapeutic process to help people understand why they're struggling.

  Alan Chambers

  Struggle, People, Temptation

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Posting information is like pornography, a slick, impersonal exhibition.

  William Deresiewicz

  Exhibitions, Information, Slick

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• The closeups of pornography make human genitals look like undiscovered prehistoric animals.

  Mason Cooley

  Animal, Looks, Humans

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• Children are not being assaulted by images that appear on a computer screen. Any Internet user knows it is quite difficult to stumble across pornography.

  Russ Feingold

  Children, Internet Users, Computer

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• The first thing to note is that pornography and many abductions occur apart from the use of computers, and that most child abuse happens within the family. So I think the extra degree of danger that computers pose doesn't justify the frenzy.

  Seymour Papert

  Children, Thinking, Abuse

  "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

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• I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing.

  William H. Gass

  Wings, Stories, Faces

  William H. Gass (2014). “On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry”, p.20, New York Review of Books

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• Whether my acting was obscene, or whether it was distasteful, well, Judge Rehnquist, who just recently passed away couldn't define pornography. His comment on pornography was, "I may not be able to define it but I know it when I see it." That's not law. That's definitely not law. Really, this trial should have been an organized crime trial. About murder and tax evasion and brutalizing people. Not about obscenity.

  Harry Reems

  People, Judging, Acting

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. Secrecy has always an element of fear in it, amounting very often to hate. Modesty is gentle and reserved. Today, modesty is thrown to the winds, even in the presence of the grey guardians. But secrecy is hugged, being a vice in itself. And the attitude of the grey ones is: Dear young ladies, you may abandon all modesty, so long as you hug your dirty little secret.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Attitude, Hate, Dirty

  D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Pornography works to a degree, high quality works, bad is obvious. Nobody goes for bad. The terrible middle ground is the mediocre. That was kind of the essence, in a way, of broadcast television when there were only three channels.

  Henry Blodget

  Essence, Quality, Degrees

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• When I was a kid at 16, sneaking into a burlesque theater in downtown Detroit was a big thrill. Today, in every hotel room in America, you can turn on the television and see hardcore pornography. So the shifts can go both ways, and it's incumbent on us as leaders of the spiritual community to get as many people as possible to really begin to think in God-realized ways.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Kids, Thinking

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• I think pornography is the only art form where you can be videotaped on a shaky handy cam sucking off a horse and be considered a star.

  David Cross

  Art, Horse, Stars

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• But it is as silly to think about peer-to-peer as applying just to music as it would have been to think about the Internet as applying just to pornography. Whatever the initial use of the technology, it has nothing to do with the potential of the architecture to serve many other extremely important functions.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Silly, Technology, Thinking

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• Women and men who are pro-life in every sense of the word marched side-by-side with pro-choice women because they care about so many common issues. We are already joined in common-cause to end sex-trafficking, pornography, discrimination, bullying, and a host of other issues.

  Carolyn Custis James

  Bullying, Men, Care

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

  Angela Carter

  Satire, Humans, Pretension

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• Isn’t fantasizing about killing people as a way to get your kicks really the filthiest form of pornography?

  Wayne LaPierre

  People, Way, Killing

  National Rifle Association Press Conference Announcing "National School Shield" Program Following the Newton, Connecticut Shootings, delivered 21 December 2012

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• If I were a young man, I would not hesitate at writing anything to get into print, except pornography.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Men, Young

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• There's always a tricky issue when you get into stolen material or pornography. The laws for online publishing the same as for print-based publishing, where if you're hosting certain types of things and somebody notifies you about that.

  Bill Gates

  Issues, Law, Online

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• Intelligence is like pornography. I can't define it, but I know if when I see it.

  Jack McDevitt

  Knows, Ifs, I Can

  Jack McDevitt (2013). “Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -”, p.151, Hachette UK

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• We need way more intimacy than nearly anyone considers normal. Always hungry for it, we seek solace and sustenance in the closest available substitutes: television, shopping, pornography, conspicuous consumption - anything to ease the hurt, to feel connected, or to project an image by which we might be seen and known, or at least see and know ourselves.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Hurt, Shopping, Ease

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