Obscenity Quotations

Well, in the 1990 reauthorization legislation, there was a phrase that said we do not fund obscenity as defined by a court of law.

Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous.

Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground -- situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks.

Well, he's doubled his own obscenity level, ... As they say in Boston, $63 million is wicked obscene. Here in New York City, we've got a different word to describe it.

Mr. Page regrets having uttered an obscenity in open court. Sixty days to serve in jail is disproportionately severe relative to the transgression.

People that watch programming now watch it either on a satellite dish or a cable. Very few people still just really, literally watch over an antenna. So for there to be this vast opportunity for programmers to put on whatever it is they want to put on with no accountability, and for me to have to face a license renewal and an FCC who is very well focused right now on obscenity and things like that -- I mean, I just think those issues need to be discussed.

I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.

Janet Reno did not feel comfortable enforcing obscenity laws. She didn't want to do it, and nobody made her do it.