Obscenity quotes
22 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war."
"I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . ."
"What is obscenity? And to whom?"
"Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground - situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks."
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