In some cultures, the sight of a woman's nose and mouth are considered irresistibly seductive. In others, the soles of a person's feet are perceived as disgusting beyond comprehension. In mainstream American culture, sex is obscene but violence is television fare for preschoolers. What is acceptable in swimwear is unacceptable in a restaurant. In an elevator we condone contact that would otherwise be actionable incriminal court. Rules of behavior are not absolute we negotiate them constantly.... Immodesty, indecency, obscenity are cultural factors, mutually agreed upon and negotiable. We are enjoined to 'cover our nakedness,' but there's considerable disagreement about what our nakedness is. Our noses and mouths The bottoms of our feet A lack of trust or mutual respect.
Quotes about indecency (15 Quotes)
And as for those who are guilty of an indecency from among your women, call to witnesses against them four (witnesses) from among you then if they bear witness confine them to the houses until death takes them away or Allah opens some way for them.
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
We don't encourage it and the artists, in fact, have very little time at the podium to begin with for their acceptance speeches. But we don't edit for commentary, only for matters of indecency.
We've heard the argument here now that the FCC is the one that ought to redefine the definition of indecency. Perhaps that is true. I find it objectionable that those who have been granted the free use of our airwaves would not see fit to restrain themselves within their own conduct to define conduct that is less than indecent, that is that which we've heard the use of the words crude, inappropriate.
subscription-based services do not call into play the issue of indecency.
Taking action on indecency lets cable manage this issue, rather than potentially losing control of it in Congress.
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity these are strictly confined to man he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.
It's been saving these up over the past year and issued them as a group in order to show everybody where it was going with its indecency policy. It's going stricter. If there's any general theme, it's that there's no place to hide. Arguments that something was intended to be funny or that it was fleeting or isolated in nature or it was just a mistake - those aren't going to cut it.
(During a trial in which she was accused of indecency on stage)Judge 'Miss West, are you trying to show contempt for this court'Mae West 'On the contrary, your Honor, I was doin' my best to conceal it.'
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
We don't want to have our children, or even us, exposed to this indecency.
Recite that which has been revealed to you of the Book and keep up prayer surely prayer keeps (one) away from indecency and evil, and certainly the remembrance of Allah is the greatest, and Allah knows what you do. (The Spider 29.45)
No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness.