No one today knows what is indecent.
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As quoted in "US TV industry plans June ad campaign on decency" Reuters news agency (24 April 2006)Jack Valenti
The insect looked at Jurgen, and its pincers rose erect in horror. The bug cried to the three judges, — Now, by St. Anthony! this Jurgen must forthwith be relegated to limbo, for he is offensive and lewd and lascivious and indecent.…
— And how can that be?… says Jurgen.
— You are offensive,… the bug replied, — because this page has a sword which I chose to say is not a sword. You are lewd because that page has a lance which I prefer to think is not a lance. You are lascivious because yonder page has a staff which I elect to declare is not a staff. And finally, you are indecent for reasons of which a description would be objectionable to me, and which therefore I must decline to reveal to anybody.…James Branch Cabell
There is something indecent in words.
Cesare Pavese
I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour.
Evelyn Waugh
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
F. H. Bradley
Nimitz considered the atomic bomb somehow indecent, certainly not a legitimate form of warfare.
Chester W. Nimitz
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