Obscenity Quotes - Page 5

• It's deeply rooted in the American psyche. Black men have always been viewed as the other, which leads to a different application of the laws. The current laws are an obscenity. More black men are locked up for using pot than white folk are for far more serious crimes.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Men, Law, White

  "The Lenny Interview: Marian Wright Edelman". Interview with Jurnee Smollett-bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

  Maya Angelou

  Independent, Mud, Republican

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.56, Random House

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Eye, People, Ears

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.13, Penguin

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• you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty.

  Tim O'Brien

  Real, War, Dirty

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• [Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

  Tim O'Brien

  War, Evil, Stories

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the Roman Catholic church also carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion, and by its use of skillful and wealthy lobbies to prevent legislative change. It is an obscenity-an all-male hierarchy, celibate or not, that presumes to rule on the lives and bodies of millions of women.

  Robin Morgan

  Fear, Hate, Evil

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• Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.

  Lev Grossman

  Hatred, Humanity, Mind

  "You — Yes, You — Are TIME's Person of the Year" by Lev Grossman, content.time.com. December 25, 2006.

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• 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.

  R. Scott Bakker

  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

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• 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

  Divorce, Interesting, Lovers

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• (The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).

  James D. Watson

  Cancer, Dark, Age

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• Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticatedstory is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a "sophisticate" means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other.

  Dorothy Parker

  Dirty, Mean, Ivory

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• 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.

  Angela Carter

  Awards, Purpose, Growing

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• Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.

  Christina Stead

  Real, Likes, Obscene

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.213, The Miegunyah Press

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• In other words, [ H.P. Lovecraft] was areligious, asexual, neurasthenic, he just didn't want to react to the world. Like Virginia Woolf, who considered religion the ultimate obscenity.

  Paul Laffoley

  Virginia, Want, World

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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