I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries. — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
“Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing impulse humans have.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress — Kate Burridge 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
“Good horror fiction deals with taboos. It must always go to the limits of what is acceptable.” — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Music is the only place that I can have no taboos. In real life I have a lot of taboos, and I… — Stromae 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
“Individual customs and taboos do sometimes present particular problems - the Dennash, for example, have various rituals associated with passing faecal matter… — Tom Melly Copy Share Image
Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Whenever I see a taboo, I just think that's something we need to drag screaming out into the light and discuss. Because… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“Freedom is for the curious ones. Free is the one not influenced by taboos. Free is the one who reasons and evolves… — Massimo Marino Copy Share Image
The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Every social order incorporates among its key taboos the notion that people living in it should not think about how it will… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
I'm interested in taboos for certain reasons. They can dramatise things and they're scary, and they're important to think about. I'm also… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
“Gossip, unless aimed or honed sharp like a weapon, was natural to human beings. It showed interestin oe's fellows, interest in the… — Nevada Barr Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister current is to break… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“There are Tantrics who deliberately break taboos and social norms and then there are other Tantrics who, by means of their practices… — Zeena Schreck 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
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
“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
“Western teaching institutions that refuse to acknowledge today's taboos are by definition subversive. Tell the new zealots of Washington that in the… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
I never consciously set out to talk about taboos or anything like that. — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
“I beg your pardon," Philip interposed stiffly, now put upon his mettle. "We have no taboos at all in England. ... England,… — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
“There are Tantrics who deliberately seek to do more active forms of renunciation, so transgression of social norms and breaking of taboo,… — Zeena Schreck 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
“We must get more talk about taboos out there, if we are to become thought partners that elevate our self (soul) care… — Dr. Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
Our fears and taboos are largely social conditions imposed upon us by the ruling powers in order to keep us opressed. They… — Kathy Change 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
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
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
“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
I think there's a lot of taboos in hip-hop that people try and stay away from. I think a big one is,… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and… — Robert Cormier 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
“One of the biggest dangers on the left-hand path, according to Zeena, is that the initiate often adheres to the need of… — Zeena Schreck 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
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