... all of my life I've made things that are like fragmented mirrors of what I perceive to be the world. As… — David Wojnarowicz Copy Share Image
It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce.… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules. You had… — Boy George Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
In distinguishing between Islamic teachings and social taboos, we must remember that Islam forbids injustice; Injustice against people, against nations, against women.… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
We exist in this weirdly schizo culture, where sex is everywhere in the media, and yet, at the same time, you don't… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
It's a taboo subject. How the dead are betrayed by the living. We who are living--we who have survived--understand that our guilt… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Stigma's power lies in silence. The silence that persists when discussion and action should be taking place. The silence one imposes on… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
Because I'm a performer I can justify and sometimes sell the things about me that offend and shock the conventional world. I… — Elizabeth Ashley Copy Share Image
If depression has been viewed as a taboo subject in the church, then suicide and suicidal thoughts are the darkest secret of… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
People say 'I love Artists', but what they really know about Artists? They've ever thought about sharing the real madness with us?… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
Nobody had counseled women to expect the changes in bleeding patterns which are typically associated with IUD use, and they received no… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no… — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across our world.… — Wess Stafford Copy Share Image
Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must… — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
In Poland, some people think that I'm kind of scandalous because I'm a woman who should stay at home with her kids… — Malgorzata Szumowska Copy Share Image
“What is the first anesthetic? Wealth. And if I take your wealth? Necessities. And if I demolish your home, burn your fields?… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
To prevent wars, people must criticize, in their own country, the abuses that occur in their own country. The role taboos play… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
We should fulfill the Minsk Protocol. The main reason for the sanctions is that Russia broke a taboo: It triggered a war… — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
Why I talked about political correctness: the colonial is now such a major taboo that any achievement of the colonial period, or… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born.… — Rani Mukerji Copy Share Image
The menopause is probably the least glamorous topic imaginable; and this is interesting, because it is one of the very few topics… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think drugs played a big role in the Taboo scene. People were taking copious amounts of ecstasy, which had filtered over… — Boy George Copy Share Image
She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The concept of 'obscenity' is tested when one dares to look at something that he has an unbearable desire to see but… — Nagisa Oshima Copy Share Image
Before the change of regime in 1989, you couldn't talk about anti-Semitism, and after the regime change, people started to talk about… — Csanad Szegedi Copy Share Image
I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
In villages across the developing world, governments have provided reasonable enough latrines that have again and again been turned into storage spaces… — Rose George Copy Share Image
“I am not sure if we are numbed to the reality of rape, but here's the sad irony. While the word rape… — Christine Stockton Copy Share Image
To an age which has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed, pride, sex, and self-will, the church mumbles on about… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Every culture is different in terms of what is taboo and what is acceptable. I grew up in Singapore, where people are… — Ng Chin Han Copy Share Image
