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• I've been told that I am evil. I've been told that I am behind the persecution of millions of Americans. That I have encouraged hate toward gays. I've received both very brief and obscene messages, and very long and literate messages that tell me a vote for Crash was vote for homophobia.

  Roger Ebert

  Hate, Gay, Long

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• I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from the ridiculous to the obscene-or, as they say in New York, sophisticated.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, New York, Ridiculous

  "I wanna go back to Dixie". Song by Tom Lehrer, 1960.

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• Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.

  Jock Sturges

  Photography, Thinking, Artist

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• There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.

  Edward Abbey

  Depressing

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.16, RosettaBooks

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• When you call us, ladies and gentlemen, just so you know, we do have your phone number. And if you say anything untoward, obscene or anything like that, FOX security then will contact your local authorities, and you will be held accountable.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Phones, Numbers, Accountability

  "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.nbcnews.com. March 9, 2006.

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• The President's announcement sounded less like a national energy plan than like a page from an election-year play book. This Administration's plan to reduce obscene oil company profits is to regulate them less.

  Nick Rahall

  Book, Years, Play

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• There is no other city as vulgar and obscene as Osaka. We should celebrate the image and welcome the development of casinos and red-light districts to attract people.

  Toru Hashimoto

  Light, Cities, People

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• The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  America, Evil, Empires

  Dinesh D'Souza (2014). “America: Imagine a World without Her”, p.101, Regnery Publishing

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• It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, Novelists, Famous Women

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.27, Penguin

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• So much of my work involved the Vietnam War that it would have been obscene to show it in a gallery. But now, it’s different; it’s important to remember and to enable the young to discover what to some of us is still so present.

  Martha Rosler

  War, Important, Different

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• I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene.

  Howard Stern

  Thinking, Radio, Found

  "Howard Stern Enters the No Spin Zone!". The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. December 08, 2005.

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• I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

  Isaac Barrow

  Matter, Facetious

  Isaac Barrow (1830). “The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.366

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• I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.

  Richard Dawkins

  Christmas, White, Jingles

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• To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what J. S. Mill called a "moral police," is to make them despotic arbiters of literary products. If one day they ban mediocre books as obscene, another day they may do likewise to a work of genius.

  Jerome Frank

  Book, Eye, Writing

  "A man's reach: the philosophy of Judge Jerome Frank".

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• I vote Democrat because I believe oil companies profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon at 15% isn't.

  David Letterman

  Believe, Government, Oil

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• In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of those who weep with those who weep. If you watch, you will see The hand of God putting the stars back in their skies one by one.

  Ann Weems

  Death, Stars, Prayer

  Ann Weems (1999). “Psalms of Lament”, p.22, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene, and the rich were so mean. Stately homes for the Lords, croquet lawns, village greens, Victoria was my queen.

  Ray Davies

  Sex, Queens, Home

  Song: Victoria

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• The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities in this country are the places of the rich, the new hotels made at the expense of the people, the hospitals where the poor die when they get sick because they don't have the money either for medicines or services. It is only in this light that the real definition of obscenity should be made.

  F. Sionil José

  Girl, Country, Real

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• I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field.

  Jay Mohr

  Fields, Spending, Products

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• 'This thing I feel, I can't name it straight out but it seems important, do you feel it too?' — this sort of direct question is not for the squeamish. For one thing, it's perilously close to 'Do you like me? Please like me,' which you know quite well that 99% of all the interhuman manipulation and bullshit gamesmanship that goes on goes on precisely because the idea of saying this sort of thing straight out is regarded as somehow obscene.

  David Foster Wallace

  Names, Ideas, Bullshit

  "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men".

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• Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.

  James Sinegal

  Salary, Messages, Brilliance

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• When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof the pig is obscene.

  John Paul Stevens

  Exercise, Pigs, Justice

  "Stevens carved liberal legacy on high court". www.seattletimes.com. April 10, 2010.

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• The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties and murders it ascribes to Him are repugnant to our ideas of His justice.

  Thomas Paine

  Bible, Ideas, Justice

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.333

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• The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Self, May, Language

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.238, Cambridge University Press

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• When he laughed in his throat, the butterfly laughed at me too. It's obscene fluttering corrupted me into darkness.

  Kazuya Minekura

  Butterfly, Darkness, Fluttering

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