Jenny Zhang Quotes

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

It suggests the red flag with all manner of sexual novelties, and an abusive tone about God and religion.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous.

No one today knows what is indecent

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous.

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.

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

The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it.

I'm not one for blaspheming, but that one made me laugh.

I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene.

So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

Obscenity comes from grime.

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

They'll say, That's funny, but you can't do that on TV.

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.

I was a kid and it was kind of scabrous, and it wasn't the sacrilege that bothered me so much as the obscenity that challenged a 14-year-old American. But over the years, I came to have a keen appreciation of Charlie Hebdo and what it did.

If I'm gonna get my balls blown off for a word, my word is "poontang".

Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.

It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.