#obscenity

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

— Jef I. Richards

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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

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

— Justice Potter Stewart

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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

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

— Christopher Hitchens

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Obscenity comes from grime. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity. ↗

— Roman Polanski

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

— Bertrand Russell

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