#obscenity

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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#art #obscenity #only #our #passion

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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#immoral #obscenity #people #realistically #show

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

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#applying #arsenal #concept #establishment #expressions