Obscene

Famous quotes containing the word obscene:

“But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.”
—Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)

“Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)

“... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)