Pornography Quotes - Page 12

• I'm against suppression of pornography. If you suppress guns - yes; if you want to suppress poverty - yes. These are the obscenities, the real brutalization of people. I am almost more outraged by ads for blue jeans or cars that sort of blatantly depict women not only as sex objects, but women that look younger than the age of consent, looking like they've just been raped or asking to be raped-utterly passive sex objects.

  Betty Friedan

  Sex, Real, Gun

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• With pornography, if you don't get hard or wet, depending on your gender, it didn't work. With humour, if you don't laugh it didn't work. And with horror, if you don't get scared or haunted, depending on what it's trying to do, it didn't work. I'm fascinated by those three categories.

  Neil Gaiman

  Laughing, Trying, Three

  "Master Shaper". Interview with David Carroll, www.tabula-rasa.info. 1997.

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• I tend to think of fear and humour as very, very close together. And to be honest I think pornography completes the triangle, because they are things that to work need to evoke a certain reaction.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Together, Needs

  "Master Shaper". Interview with David Carroll, www.tabula-rasa.info. 1997.

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• I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." There might as well be, "Arsibalt said, "but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators.

  Neal Stephenson

  Water, Together, Bombs

  Neal Stephenson (2010). “Anathem”, p.142, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I doubt that pornography has been good for the advancement of society, but I suspect it’s done wonders for the advancement of computer technology.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Technology, Doubt, Advancement

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.

  Alan Moore

  Children, Cockroaches, Heroin

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• The only thing that separates us from the animals... is we have pornography.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Animal, Choke, Magnolias

  "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2001.

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• The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to its influence. If one is obedient, the priesthood can show how to break a habit and even erase an addiction. Holders of the priesthood have that authority and should employ it to combat evil influences.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Evil, Addiction, Influence

  "Cleansing the Inner Vessel". Article by Boyd K. Packer, www.lds.org. 2010.

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• For the same reason we don't allow kids to buy pornography, for the same reason we don't allow kids to buy cigarettes, for the same reason we don't allow kids to buy alcohol, we shouldn't allow them to go to stores and buy video games.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Kids, Games, Alcohol

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• It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.

  Alastair Reynolds

  Snapshots, Lessons, Might

  Alastair Reynolds (2002). “Revelation Space”, p.406, Penguin

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• The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks.

  Al Goldstein

  Thinking, Christ, Reason

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• The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Feminist, Feminism, Males

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• The worst that can be said about pornography is that it leads not to anti-social acts but to the reading of more pornography

  Gore Vidal

  Reading, Social, Said

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• It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.

  Jose Saramago

  Hunger, Obscene

  Interview with Jose Eugenio "Jo" Soares on "Jo Soares Eleven Thirty", 1997.

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• Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Sex, Technology, Legends

  "The Guardian profile: Tim Berners-Lee" by Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2005.

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• Each country makes a different decision on adult pornography, but the good news is that even governments you hate, hate child pornography.

  Eric Schmidt

  Country, Children, Hate

  "Google's Big Tent event: porn, copyright, Eric Schmidt and all". www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2012.

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• The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Branches, Action, Tough

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.46, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.

  Erica Jong

  Communication, Thinking, Evil

  Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.86, Penguin

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• There are so many comics about violence. I'm not entertained or amused by violence, and I'd rather not have it in my life. Sex, on the other hand, is something the vast majority of us enjoy, yet it rarely seems to be the subject of comics. Pornography is usually bland, repetitive and ugly, and, at most, 'does the job.' I always wanted to make a book that is pornographic, but is also, I hope, beautiful, and mysterious, and engages the mind.

  Dave McKean

  Beautiful, Jobs, Sex

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• War is, after all, the universal perversion ... war stories, the pornography of war.

  John Rae

  War, Stories, Universal

  'The Custard Boys' (1960) ch. 13

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• MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.

  Richard Posner

  Government, Issues, People

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• Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Money, Men, Technology

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• We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!

  Woody Allen

  Censorship, Film, Lit

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Ive heard about cases when people repented of pornography and were healed of liver cancer.

  Gordon Klingenschmitt

  Cancer, People, Insane

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• Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?

  J. G. Ballard

  Games, Lasts, Violence

  J. G. Ballard (2001). “The complete short stories”, Fourth Estate

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