{"quotes":[{"text":"Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.","author":"Doris Day","tags":["vulgarity","begins","explicit "],"id":12092,"author_id":"Doris+Day"},{"text":"I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.","author":"Mel Brooks","tags":["bullshit","humor","profanity","shit","vulgarity"],"id":17798,"author_id":"Mel+Brooks"},{"text":"Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of achievement, the vandal, the status denier, the iconoclast, who refuses to acknowledge any ranking rules or hierarchy. Whoever wishes to understand the twentieth century must always keep the barbaric factor in view. Precisely in more recent modernity, it was and still is typical to allow an alliance between barbarism and success before a large audience, initially more in the form of insensitive imperialism, and today in the costumes of that invasive vulgarity which advances into virtually all areas through the vehicle of popular culture. That the barbaric position in twentieth-century Europe was even considered the way forward among the purveyors of high culture for a time, extending to a messianism of uneducatedness, indeed the utopia of a new beginning on the clean slate of ignorance, illustrates the extent of the civilizatory crisis this continent has gone through in the last century and a half - including the cultural revolution downwards, which runs through the twentieth century in our climes and casts its shadow ahead onto the twenty-first.","author":"Peter Sloterdijk","tags":["20th-century","21st-century","barbarian","barbaric","barbarism","civilization","iconoclast","ignorance","twentieth-century","vandal","vulgar","vulgarity"],"id":27025,"author_id":"Peter+Sloterdijk"},{"text":"How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is from you half-and-half sort of people that you get pomposity and vulgarity.","author":"H. Rider Haggard","tags":["pomposity","true","vulgarity"],"id":65425,"author_id":"H.+Rider+Haggard"},{"text":"[O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric.","author":"John Marshall Harlan","tags":["censorship","lyrics","vulgarity"],"id":77296,"author_id":"John+Marshall+Harlan"},{"text":"A director's dream? No, Bollywood reality in 1995.Business is booming, but cliché's are passée. A different sort of breeze-fresh, young-is unsettling fatigued conventions.","author":"Anupama Chopra","tags":["box-office","formula","good-story","narration","plot","violence","vulgarity"],"id":154687,"author_id":"Anupama+Chopra"},{"text":"Women’s marches are a clever progressive divide and conquer strategy that not only turns women against men, but also turns women against each other in the guise of peace and solidarity. It is a brilliant tactic to employ media propaganda to make privileged women feel oppressed and then program them to think that vulgarity, exhibitionism and emasculation is empowering.","author":"Dawn Perlmutter","tags":["anti-feminism","anti-feminist","bodyparts","empowerment","feminism","feminist","vulgar","vulgarity","womensmarch"],"id":211043,"author_id":"Dawn+Perlmutter"},{"text":"Manlius ... Took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand.","author":"Iain Pears","tags":["broad-mindedness","civilization","crudeness","education","knowledge","like-mindedness","materialism","philosophy","plato","power","understanding","vulgarity"],"id":224491,"author_id":"Iain+Pears"},{"text":"I learned a strange thing... That in a jumble of unintelligible talk, the word 'nigger' leaps out with electric clarity. You always hear it and it always stings. And always it casts the person using it into a category of brute ignorance. I thought with some amusement that if these two women only knew what they were revealing about themselves to every Negro on that bus, they would have been outraged.","author":"John Howard Griffin","tags":["hatred","ignorance","racial-slurs","slurs","vulgarity"],"id":270944,"author_id":"John+Howard+Griffin"},{"text":"I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.","author":"Coco Chanel","tags":["fight","game","luxury","modesty","vulgarity"],"id":302023,"author_id":"Coco+Chanel"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}