Of all the strange crimes that humanity has legislated out of nothing, blasphemy is the most amazing – with obscenity and indecent exposure fighting it out for second and third place.
Obscenity Quotes
I do have a cause though. It is obscenity. I’m for it. Unfortunately the civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it owing to the nature of the laws as a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on but we no what’s really involved: dirty […]
People are full of dirty words. The only time they do not use them, most people, I mean, is when they are describing something dirty.
But implicit in the history of the First Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance.
Bullshit! (reply to Playboy interviewer who commented “You have been accused of vulgarity”)
The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things – bad language and whatever – it’s all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition… There’s an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil […]
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.
