Taboo Quotes · Page 13

Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores.

— Bob Dylan

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will…

— James A. Baldwin

I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that dark place.

— Ricky Williams

All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress

— Kate Burridge

“You have trouble in finding answers because you have declared all the relevant material and subjects as taboo.”

— Danial Shamsi

I never consciously set out to talk about taboos or anything like that.

— Roseanne Barr

I'm glad I've established this as my zone: 'the taboo breaker.'

— Ayushmann Khurrana

I have an opportunity to give a voice to those who have no voice. Even though film production wasn't a bucket list…

— Julie Smolyansky

We used to call the 1% the ruling class, but America's never felt comfortable using that terminology. It was taboo to talk…

— Eric Drooker

To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental,…

— Frans de Waal

Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

She started drinkin' we weren't thinkin' too straight, she was doing eighty slammed on the brakes. Got so hot we had to…

— Eddie Money

For 10 years, Kosovo was taboo. No one could officially tell the truth.

— Ivica Dacic

I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me.

— Morgan Saylor

It's fun to explore areas that are taboo that you're not allowed to in real life as an actor.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

— Park Chan-wook

Sex was always surrounded by taboos, and I don't see it necessarily as a manifestation of evil. I think that sexuality is…

— Paulo Coelho

Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line…

— Christa Wolf

Suffering should not define you as a woman! And just because you’re a man it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t affect you!…

— Susan Sarandon

The menopause shouldn't be so taboo because it's natural. I was filming on 'New Tricks' when mine started.

— Amanda Redman

The number one taboo for boys is to be feminine, so for someone to not only override their internal directive but society's…

— RuPaul

Because in traditional Hindu culture menstruation is associated with a variety of social taboos, prolonged menstrual bleeding produced conflicts within families. The…

— Ruth Simmons

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered…

— Eckhart Tolle

We put boogers on our fingers, then shake your hand.

— Biz Markie

There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.

— Susan Sontag