I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.
The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
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.
Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.
Our crucifixes exhibit the pain, but they veil, perhaps necessarily, the obscenity: but the death of the God-Man was both.
In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?
At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.
And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.
Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends.
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.
