10 quotes about obscenity follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!

Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

Bertrand Russell
0

It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.'

Bertrand Russell
0

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.
0

The obscenity law is still mired in inconsistency. It simply does not give clear directions as to what is allowed to be sold or not sold to consenting adults.

Andrew Chatham
0

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
0

We will go to colleges, card and gift shops and every corner of Delhi to protest it in any form. We will burn Valentine's Day cards depicting obscenity.

Jai Bhagwan Goyal
0

The line between protected pornography and unprotected obscenity lies between appealing to a good healthy interest in sex and appealing to a depraved interest, whatever that means.

Antonin Scalia
0

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
0

Janet Reno did not feel comfortable enforcing obscenity laws. She didn't want to do it, and nobody made her do it.

Bruce Taylor
0

What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?

Nero Wolfe
0