#obscenity

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#happens #ignorant #magistrate #obscenity #shock

They told me I was not to draw. ↗

— Mike Diana

#obscenity #censorship

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

#applying #arsenal #concept #establishment #expressions

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. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#actually #age #define #definition #different

Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it. ↗

— Jef I. Richards

#define #know #like #obscenity #see

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

#beauty #blasphemy #brings #corruption #devours

I know it when I see it Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964), concurring op. ↗

— Justice Potter Stewart

#law #obscenity #freedom

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#case #communities #community #court #individual

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#eye #eye of the beholder #matter #obscenity #taste

Obscenity comes from grime. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#obscenity