This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Sexuality is such a taboo thing. I think it should be more out in the open, especially with young women. I think… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
My crazy parents and those crazy Catholic nuns didn't do a good job of forcing me to keep the Ten Commandments, but… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
When Bound was released, Boys don't Cry wasn't out yet. Therefore it was very taboo to play a lesbian. I loved the… — Gina Gershon Copy Share Image
Jihad amongst the Muslims today has become like a taboo subject that is discussed over coffee. The one who writes and speaks… — Sheikh Abdullah Copy Share Image
I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them - Joan Collins, or really naff soap… — Boy George Copy Share Image
I know I will be breaking a taboo. But I'm sure that it will provoke a new discussion. It's time things change.… — Brigitte Nielsen Copy Share Image
“G. K. Chesterton described as “a taboo of tact or convention, whereby we are free to say that a man does this… — Charles W. Colson Copy Share Image
I think that when you're taking pictures with my principles, you can try anything. Dare to do a lot of things -… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
There is no taboo after this assassination and no one of the Palestinian leaders has immunity anymore, ... It shows once again… — Silvan Shalom Copy Share Image
We also have no taboos against freedom of expression. Although I am president, I must confront the criticism of party members in… — Nguyen Minh Triet Copy Share Image
I wasn't part of the Taboo crowd the same way I was part of the New Romantics. I suppose I was seen… — Boy George Copy Share Image
In this rigged, two-party system, third parties almost never win a national election. It's obvious what our function is in this constricted… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The classic comedian says there's nothing that's taboo; if you laugh at one thing you've got to laugh at everything, that comedy… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
“You have trouble in finding answers because you have declared all the relevant material and subjects as taboo.” — Danial Shamsi Copy Share Image
Taboos are always going to be interesting.Our [ with Michael Dumontier] style has its range and there is room for explicitness in… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
Wanting money has been made so taboo. We're not allowed to talk about it or admit we want it, and yet we… — Jen Sincero Copy Share Image
It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out… — Michael Musto Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
“Never break a taboo because you want to be the one to break it. Break it because you want to see what… — Douglas Watson Copy Share Image
Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter.… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
money is a more taboo subject than sex. If you don't believe me, think about this: you have friends who tell you… — Patricia King Copy Share Image
Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
I was always intrigued by the idea of bringing things together that are considered taboo or risque and bringing them together with… — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
[Taboo] has been exactly the same as working with the BBC in that creatively they do that precious thing which is to… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo… In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos which we tamper with at… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to… — Robert Byron Copy Share Image
“We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When I was 12, I used to dress as a woman in the house. At the time, cross-dressing was a big taboo… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
If you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I touched his hand, carefully. Not too intimate, but not some half-assed there-there pat, either. Would he understand? Usually the thought process… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image