Obscene Quotes - Page 4

• The growing gap between rich and poor, the seeming lack of concern for the health and well-being of ordinary people, the obscene salaries made by CEOs who are increasing profits by moving their plants to places where labor is cheap - that's where the problem is, not in schools, colleges and universities.

  Joan Wallach Scott

  Moving, School, College

  Source: www.salon.com

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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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• Basically, the prosecutor who led case against me and that administration were trying to say that an actor can be held responsible for his acting, thousands of miles away from where he did the acting. The analogy would be if an artist painted a nude painting in New York City, and it was met with accolades and great reviews. And suddenly, somebody from Texas bought it and put it in their shoe store and it was found to be obscene in Texas, the artist in New York is responsible, and goes to jail because it's obscene in Texas.

  Harry Reems

  Artist, Trying, Acting

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The United States is a special case, and for me, very interesting. It's studied carefully and we know a lot about it. One of the most striking features of the elections is the class-based character of the vote. Now, class is not discussed or even measured in the United States. In fact, the word is almost obscene, except for the term "middle class." And you can't get exact class data; the census doesn't even give class data. But you can sort of see the significance of it just from income figures.

  Noam Chomsky

  Character, Giving, Interesting

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• As a writer, I've often said that, among the other things that we need to reclaim, other than the obscene wealth of billionaires, is language. Language has been deployed to mean the exact opposite of what it really means when they talk about democracy or freedom.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mean, Opposites, Democracy

  "Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'". Interview with Arun Gupta, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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• I hope that that the people in the Occupy movement are politically aware enough to know that their being excluded from the obscene amassing of wealth of US corporations is part of the same system of the exclusion and war that is being waged by these corporations in places like India, Africa and the Middle East.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, People, Middle East

  "Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'". Interview with Arun Gupta, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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• I'd never touch anything. I think it's foolhardy to play around with the face that you've been given. To have a little snip or a tuck, I think, is really quite obscene.

  George Michael

  Thinking, Play, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think it's obscene that many people are starving to death from anorexia. It's been said many times, it's trite. But when so much evil is going on against, for example the Afghani people, where women are being so oppressed that a woman's body is a battlefield.

  Nan Goldin

  Thinking, People, Evil

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sex, Animal, Men

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• The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.

  David Bowie

  Believe, People, Together

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.36, Melville House

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• That I ever think for one minute that I should ever feel lonely is obscene and unreasonable.

  Andrew W.K.

  Lonely, Thinking, Should

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Vocabulary, Would Be

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.209, Harvard University Press

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• The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Police, Half, Beard

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• We are accused here of polygamy, and actions the most indelicate, obscene, and disgusting, such that none but a corrupt and depraved heart could have contrived. These things are too outrageous to admit to belief.

  John Taylor

  Heart, Belief, Action

  Orson Pratt, John Taylor, William Gibson (O.B.E.) (1851). “A Series of Pamphlets”

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• I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am.

  Jason Isaacs

  Mean, Who I Am, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We all agree that parents have the primary responsibility of filtering the material that reaches children. However, children are often lured onto websites containing obscene material through the devious manipulation of search engines.

  Robert A. Brady

  Children, Responsibility, Parent

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• ... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

  Ellen Glasgow

  War, Choices, Horror

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• On two subjects the overwhelming majority of people regarded their own opinions as Absolute Truth, and sincerely believed that anyone who disagreed with them was immoral, outrageous, sinful, sacrilegious, offensive, intolerable, stupid, illogical, treasonable, actionable, against the public interest, ridiculous, and obscene. The two subjects were (of course) sex and religion.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Stupid, Two

  Robert A. Heinlein (1988). “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”

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• The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Sides, Cost

  "Former Vogue Editor in Chief Carine Roitfeld: 'Fashion Is a Matter of Taste, Not Money'". Interview with Claudia Voigt and Britta Sandberg, www.spiegel.de. April 7, 2011.

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• Truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.

  Keith Johnstone

  Ideas, Truth Is, Psychotic

  Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.83, Routledge

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• And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple.

  Maureen Dowd

  Jesus, Thinking, Government

  "Virtuous Bankers? Really!?!" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2009.

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• What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is the joy that precedes pain, the moment of life just before death.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Photography, Pain, Joy

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• I'm tellin' ya I get no respect. When I was in Switzerland, I got an obscene yodel.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Respect, Switzerland, No Respect

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• Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.

  Mark Twain

  Sound, Mouths, Slang

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.

  Rufus Choate

  Cat, Onions, Worship

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