Taboo Quotes · Page 5

As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.

— Bertrand Russell

I want to sit with my legs wide open and laugh so loud that the whole damn restaurant turns and looks at…

— Paula Cole

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

— Park Chan-wook

Folklore provides a socially sanctioned outlet for the discussion of the forbidden and taboo.

— Alan Dundes

There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.

— Richard Hell

Give me the enchilada with the pickle sauce shoved up between the donkey's ass.

— Frank Zappa

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

— Ayushmann Khurrana

“But did he know that I'd already forgiven him for having rejected me?”

— Maryam Schonbeck

[My book is] a collection of letters and essays about what it takes to be a young woman today. Mostly the taboo…

— Lily Collins

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

There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy…

— Bob Dylan

For the longest time, you couldnt even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

— Jon Scieszka

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

— RuPaul

How come I can pick my ears, but not my nose? Who made up that rule anyway? How can you say that's…

— Ani DiFranco

Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about Taboo. It's different. I don't think you've seen anything like it. It's getting incredible…

— Steven Knight

“I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.”

— Clarice Lispector

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

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

I think that when you're taking pictures with my principles, you can try anything. Dare to do a lot of things -…

— Carine Roitfeld

Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the…

— Orhan Pamuk

I think historically modern economics, capitalist economics, tends to erode moral categories... And this is where I think the right gets capitalism…

— Michael Pollan

“He says, "I would walk around the township and I could point them out, which girls had been abused. You could see…

— Emma Brockes

Donald Trump has made the principle of purposely breaking a taboo into a means of achieving his political objectives, which is something…

— Martin Schulz

In the First Amendment to the Constitution, the Founders made it clear that this was not to be a sky-god nation with…

— Gore Vidal

Getting paid for being laid, guess that's the name of the game.

— Elton John

“Fight for change? Thirst for difference? Start talking what men avoid talking about.”

— Toba Beta

Terrorism, as a whole, is - I don't want to say 'taboo,' but it is a very emotional subject.

— Bill Goldberg

“Taboo comes from a Polynesian word that means “sacred or holy” rather than simply “prohibited.”

— Mary K. Greer

I love watching the National Geographic channel. That show 'Taboo'? I love it!

— Keshia Knight Pulliam

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

— Roseanne Barr

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

— Amanda Redman

There is no policy too sensitive to question, and no subject so taboo that you cannot even mention it.

— Lee Hsien Loong

I'm the daughter of a sister whose the mother of a brother who's the brother of another.

— Queen Latifah

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

— Morgan Saylor

“A child should never be made to feel that sex and/or his/her sexuality is taboo or a mistake.”

— Asa Don Brown

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

— Thomas Dolby

I want to break the taboo against questioning this drive for maximum longevity.

— Katy Butler

To look without fear is a good subversive tool, undermining taboos.

— Wolfgang Tillmans

I like talking about things that are taboo, because it makes them not taboo anymore.

— Sarah Silverman

The taboo regarding menstruation exists across the world, even among the educated.

— Arunachalam Muruganantham