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In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.

Robert Bresson

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

Dan Quayle

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.

Basically, anything goes, as long as it's not obscene, doesn't offend or present a safety hazard.

Mark Giuffre

When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the pig is obscene.

John Paul Stevens

The only regulation is that you can't have anything obscene showing on you. If [athletes] had a tattoo that was obscene but not showing, that is up to them.

Keith Boucher

A question mark is not obscene. I don't know where Mesa County is coming from.

Cheryl Morris

In many of the titles mentioned, the increases are proper. However, a handful of them are very much out of line. In fact, some border on obscene.

Mayor Richard Bohan

It's not just Palmeiro but a lot of these guys have put up numbers that border on the obscene, ... And when you think they've done it illegally when so many guys did it the right way, it's hard to stomach.

Carlton Fisk

Under our current collective-bargaining contract there is an incentive program that our members are sharing in. Given the obscene level of profits the company is now enjoying, though, it should probably be more.

Wayne Holland

That would be obscene. That is not what the people of this county intended when they elected 10 Democrats. ... The Democrats should be in charge.

Peter Schmitt

The federal investigation of my law firm for giving bonuses to employees who are civic-minded and who care about this country and the judicial system is obscene.

Geoffrey Fieger

Women should be obscene and not heard.

Groucho Marx

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.

Jen Bluestein

Some obscene antics were displayed to police through the window. Clearly it was confidence brought on by the ingestion of alcohol.

Mike Hanson

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Havelock Ellis

It's an obscene amount of money, but he's worth it. This team is going to do some exciting things. And there's no sense in going out and making $25 million if you're not winning championships.

Perry Rogers

The rates as obscene as they may sound are, in relation to the risk, nothing.

Bruce Douglas

All phone calls are obscene.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

It's obscene to go against a guy who will spend $100 million. We're never going to match this mayor dollar for dollar.

Leo Hindery