As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos. — Bertrand Russell 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
I never consciously set out to talk about taboos or anything like that. — Roseanne Barr 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
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
Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today. — Ellen Goodman 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
“Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing impulse humans have.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I don't have prejudices. I'm against taboos. But of course there are some things I'll never touch - because as a mom,… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to the taboos that surround the human body. I find it fascinating that we are repelled by many of the… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
I've never really thought in terms of taboos. I think that books can really help parents and kids talk together about difficult… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the… — Rene Konig Copy Share Image
“Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I think it's important to break taboos for the same reason it's important to break laws and rules - because either you're… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
“It's also about integration: owning up to the parts of yourself, however much you might not like them. In the Real there… — Alan McCluskey Copy Share Image
Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Zeena Schreck is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, author, musician/composer, tantric teacher, mystic, animal rights activist, and counter-culture icon known by her mononymous… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
To prevent wars, people must criticize, in their own country, the abuses that occur in their own country. The role taboos play… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Zeena Schreck believes that the right-hand path and the left-hand path have traditionally had the same end goal; it is only the… — Zeena Schreck 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
“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
All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress — Kate Burridge 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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