#obscene

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#affront #anything #cannot #consolations #controlled

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#dancing #eager #faces #male #more

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

#dared #great #great men #had #men

A political race today, even a primary, is $150 million. The whole political system has become obscene in terms of the absurd amount of money that is required to compete. Just put it on ESPN and call it a sporting event. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#amount #become #call #compete #espn

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#done #end #entitled #i #i think

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.

#deals #interest #manner #material #obscene

Women should be obscene and not heard. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#obscene #should #women

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#any #anything #before #body #i

I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#angles #any #anything #avoid #body

I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am. ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#anywhere #awful #compromised #fame #go