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
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
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
“To launch a taboo, a group has to be poised halfway between weakness and power. A confident group doesn’t need taboos to… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“The assimilation of taboo images to the everyday language of doing business produces a strange effect. It domesticates the taboo while at… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
“Taboos, though unadmitted, are potent. What is it that people fear? What they don't understand. The civilized man is not a whit… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Every field has its taboos. In algebraic geometry the taboos are (1) writing a draft that can be followed by anyone but… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
“In Afghanistan a woman’s longing for love is taboo. It is forbidden by the tribes’ notion of honor and by the mullahs.… — Asne Seirstad Copy Share Image
The only ‘realistic’ prospect is to ground a new political universality by opting for the impossible, fully assuming the place of the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Whatever the joke is has to be funny, and not coming from a mean-spirited place. I think some things are totally off… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
You could do much more in movies than you could on TV, and even movies were heavily censored. But in television, the… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. They are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
I just have to go against the grain. I mean, I can be objective and do what I need to do, handle… — Freddie Gibbs 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
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
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
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
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
I do enjoy and feel compelled to talk about things that are taboo. One, because I think I'm a troublemaker inside, if… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but all cultures (save… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I want to show the event at the very moment it takes place… My body must be anchored to the ground and… — Luc Delahaye 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
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
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
When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
... 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
