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  • We who have witnessed the obscenity of war and experienced its horror and terrible consequences have an obligation to rise above our pain and suffering and turn the tragedy of our lives into a triumph.

    Pain   War   Suffering  
    "The Forgotten Wounded of Iraq" by Ron Kovic, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2006.
  • The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.

    Pain   Violence   Mystery  
  • Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence, and no obscenity save the tyranny of custom.

    Men   Missing   Path  
    R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.241, The Overlook Press
  • Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.

    Animal   Men   Obscenity  
    Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.119, Univ of California Press
  • Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting it out for second and third place.

    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.225, Penguin
  • I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

    Today   Kind   Obscenity  
    Jacobellis v. Ohio (concurring opinion) (1964)
  • The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.

  • Sex and obscenity are not synonymous.

    Sex   Obscenity   Obscene  
    Lenny Bruce (1992). “How to Talk Dirty and Influence People”, p.127, Simon and Schuster
  • Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?

    Eye   Justice   Doe  
    Tony Kushner (1994). “A Bright Room Called Day”, p.128, Theatre Communications Group
  • Berkshire's whole record has been achieved without paying one ounce of attention to the efficient market theory in its hard form. And not one ounce of attention to the descendants of that idea, which came out of academic economics and went into corporate finance and morphed into such obscenities as the capital asset pricing model, which we also paid no attention to. I think you'd have to believe in the tooth fairy to believe that you could easily outperform the market by seven-percentage points per annum just by investing in high volatility stocks.

  • profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

    Eye   People   Ears  
    Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.13, Penguin
  • When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.

    Freedom   Real   Dirty  
  • Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery.

  • The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

  • In families there are frequently matters of which no one speaks, nor even alludes. There are no words for these matters. As the binding skeleton beneath the flesh is never acknowledged by us and, when at last it defines itself, is after all an obscenity.

  • Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and obscenity of divorce is unknown where individuals have not become Siamese twins.

    Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee
  • It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre--the novel designed on purpose to be excludedfrom the Booker short-list.

  • The greatest issue is to raise the question of birth control out of the gutter of obscenity ... into the light of intelligence and human understanding.

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

    Look Magazine, February 23, 1954.
  • Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

  • A: There is no grand scheme of things. B: If there were a grand scheme of things, the fact – the fact – that we are not equipped to perceive it, either by natural or supernatural means, is a nightmarish obscenity. C: The very notion of a grand scheme of things is a nightmarish obscenity.

    Mean   Facts   Natural  
    Thomas Ligotti (2011). “My Work Is Not Yet Done”, p.14, Random House
  • When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

    Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.177, Vintage
  • ... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

    War   Choices   Horror  
  • I don't see [the jungle] so much erotic. I see it more full of obscenity. It's just - Nature here is vile and base. I wouldn't see anything erotical here. I would see fornication and asphyxiation and choking and fighting for survival and growing and just rotting away. Of course, there's a lot of misery. But it is the same misery that is all around us. The trees here are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don't think they sing. They just screech in pain.

  • The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture of inconsistency and contradiction; to call which the word of God, is the highest pitch of extravagance: it is to attribute to the deity that which any person of common sense would blush to confess himself the author of.

  • I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.

    Space   Lakes   Michigan  
    Jean Shepherd (2010). “In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash”, p.118, Broadway Books
  • Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.

    Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.413, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Beauty   Forever   Secret  
    Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.41
  • Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.

    Art   Media   Care  
    Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965
  • 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.

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