“ Just because I publish pornography does not mean that I am not concerned about the social ills that all of us are. ”
- Larry Flynt- Copy
- 1K
“ What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
- 574
“ Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.2K
“ When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation. ”
- Anais Nin- Copy
- 313
“ Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art — or almost the only stuff. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 792
“ Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life… is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 3.9K
“ 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. ”
- Herbert Marcuse- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
- 945
“ The use of a two syllable vulgarity by the chairman was rather ambitious. ”
- Mike McCurry- Copy
- 1.4K
“ If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics — a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage — surely that proves that you are in the right? ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 658
“ Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent. ”
- Elwyn Brooks White- Copy
- 807
“ There's always a tricky issue when you get into stolen material or pornography. The laws for online publishing the same as for print-based publishing, where if you're hosting certain types of things and somebody notifies you about that. ”
- Bill Gates- Copy
- 2.6K
“ It's interesting actually, what's gone on with that footage, and also what happened with the footage from the war in Afghanistan, is that our news reporting is pretty much along the lines of pornography now. ”
- Alex Cox- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The Department of Justice will continue to use every available resource to prosecute child pornography cases. ”
- John Ashcroft- Copy
- 1.7K
“ What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another. ”
- D.H. Lawrence- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand. ”
- Angela Lambert- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Woven through these galleries are some of the most deliriously awful canvases of the 19th century high-finance porn of the ripest sort. ”
- Robert Hughes- Copy
- 2.1K
“ A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? ”
- Stanislaw Lec- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Sodom and Madonna-ism are two halves of the same movement, the mere tick-tack of lust and asceticism, pietism and pornography. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 193
“ A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency. ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
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