Obscene Quotes (17 quotes)

“The police have no leads as yet on the person or persons who painted obscene suggestions on the buildings. One store owner said he was going to leave a dictionary on a public bench so the vandals could at least spell the obscenities correctly.”
― Anne Bishop, Marked in Flesh

tags: correct, declare, funny, graffiti, humor, investigate, laugh, lead, learn, lesson, mark, obscene, owner, paint, police, response, rude, search, spell, spelling, statement, suggest, suggestion, vandal, vandalism

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“It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend. The story, taking it as it is told, is blasphemously obscene. It gives an account of a young woman engaged to be married, and while under this engagement, she is, to speak plain language, debauched by a ghost.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

tags: absurdity, debauchery, doctrine, existence, fable, holy-ghost, jesus-christ, mythology, new-testament, obscene, ridiculous, wild

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“...a leering, sneering obscene little harpy...”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

tags: harpy, leering, obscene, sneering

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“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: angelic, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, atheism, atheist, atheists, bad, base, believer, believers, bible, blameless, chaplain, chaplains, church, churches, churchman, churchmen, clergyman, clergymen, cleric, clerics, congregation, congregations, corrupt, criminal, crooked, curate, curates, debased, debauched, decent, degenerate, depraved, dishonest, dishonorable, disreputable, dissolute, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastics, ethical, evil, foul, funny, godless, good, high-minded, hilarious, honest, honorable, humor, humorous, humour, image, imam, imams, immoral, impress, impression, impure, iniquitous, irreproachable, joke, jokes, law-abiding, lewd, licentious, loose, lowdown, man-of-the-cloth, men-of-the-cloth, minister, ministers, miscreant, moral, morally-wrong, nefarious, noble, nonbeliever, nonbelievers, obscene, padre, padres, pagan, parson, parsons, pastor, pastors, persona, perverse, perverted, preacher, preachers, priest, priests, principled, promiscuous, pure, quotations, quotes, rector, rectors, reprobate, reverend, reverends, righteous, saintly, satire, shady, shameless, sinful, sleazy, synagogue, synagogues, unchaste, unconscionable, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulous, unvirtuous, upright, upstanding, vicar, vicars, vile, villainous, virtuous, wanton, wicked, wish, wrongful

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“Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to transformations that can not only make it safe for public consumption, not a powerful vehicle through which to address the public imagination.”
― Jennifer Birkett

tags: art, consumption, obscene, order

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“Tell me everything it explains,” he said when he could remember how to speak. Being forced to move moist flaps of meat in order to form the words felt sensual and obscene.”
― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate

tags: meat-flaps, moist, obscene, sensual, speaking

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“It is Obscene to keep Printing Newspapers in the Digital Era”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

tags: changing-times, conservation, digital, digital-age, era, new, news, newspapers, obscene, obscenity, paper, preservation, print, reality, save, save-the-world, technology, technology-change, time-changes, times, wastage, wood, world

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“I don't buy into the notion of 'privilege' at all. To even attempt to brand and shame whole swathes of people based on their race or gender is, to me, obscene. It has icky echoes of totalitarian propaganda which seeks to direct the ire of a populace at certain sections of society deemed 'unworthy.' Playing the blame game gets us nowhere.”
― Stewart Stafford

tags: blame-game, blame-game-failure, male-privilege, obscene, prejudice, privilege, propaganda, propaganda-quotes, shaming, white-privilege

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“Nothing is more obscene than inertia. More blasphemous than the bloodiest oath is paralysis.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

tags: henry-miller, inertia, obscene, obscenity, paralysis, tropic-of-cancer, words-to-live-by

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“Ses’ach L’ru!” Came the slightly muffled chorus. This was Ruminarii for ‘Hail the Captain.’ Marsh’k sat down on his seat of office. It made a muted and rather obscene noise as he sank into the seat and the device registered his presence.”
― Christina Engela, Black Sunrise

tags: and, captain, chorus, device, muffled, obscene, of, office, presence, rather, ru, ses, the, this

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“Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature[...]Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing[...]and on Decatur Street, a mass-transit motor coach named Desire.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

tags: louisiana, nature, obscene

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“Human nature itself seemed to her obscene, when she thought of all the filthy secrets of sensuality, the degrading caresses, all the mysterious connexions that cannot be broken off, at which she guessed.”
― Guy de Maupassant, Une vie

tags: human-nature, obscene

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“The corruption in government is obscene.”
― Steven Magee

tags: corruption, fraud, government, illegal, lies, money, obscene, politics, president, trump

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“The mistreatment of the disabled by the corrupt government is obscene.”
― Steven Magee

tags: compensation, corrupt, disability, disabled, government, mistreatment, obscene, security, social, workers

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“The blatant lies that the corporate government engages in with the common people is obscene.”
― Steven Magee

tags: blatant, common, corporate, engages, fraud, government, illegal, lies, obscene, people

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“Every time I see a USA rocket launch, I sit there thinking ‘What an obscene waste of money’.”
― Steven Magee

tags: astronaut, launch, money, nasa, obscene, rocket, satellite, space, thinking, waste

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“I may be here
in my study alone as God
when your perfume invades me
and everything becomes charged
All that is holy and obscene
between life and life
brims with possibility and potential
To love and be loved
is to plant a tree for shade
and find it also bears fruit
I would be King
were this a world where
the currency
was love”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: currency, god, holy, life, love, love-poem, lovers, obscene, perfume, tree

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