Taboo Quotes

167 quotes by 152 authors

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with. — Adam Ant
Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no… — Chogyam Trungpa
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster… — Lewis Mumford
The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been… — Helen Reddy
The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo… — Richard Dawkins
There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the… — Philip Caputo
We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of… — Christina Stead
Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous… — Susan Sontag
Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy. — Mahatma Gandhi
I try to destroy taboo in fashion-which is something I learned as a kid. I come from the street, and you have to be a… — Riccardo Tisci
In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline, with its roots… — Ruth Behar
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 the States — Kyle MacLachlan
Breastfeeding should not be tabooâ€”and bottle feeding should not be judgedâ€”it's ALL fun for the whole family, — Jaime King
Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and whats a taboo and whats not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent… — Richard Serra
I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist. — Gemma Arterton
The taboo for straight actors playing gay is gone... My mother was squirming a bit in the theater because she comes from a different generation. — Dean Cain
The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit… — Manu Bennett
In the world of football and of sport in general there is still a taboo around homosexuality. Everyone ought to live freely with themselves, their… — Cesare Prandelli
The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across our world. We sacrifice children… — Wess Stafford
Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first place. Except where… — Ross Douthat

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