Taboo Quotes

167 quotes by 152 authors

Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent racism, the sexual… — Eric Fischl
The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo. — Aldrich Ames
Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality. — Diego Rivera
When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter… — Todd Solondz
It's taboo for me to date wrestlers. — Stephanie
Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos which we tamper with at our peril. — Logan Pearsall Smith
There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too… — Alan Watts
I have friends of mine who have died of AIDS and many of those friends...did not tell me until the very end...because they felt that… — Bianca Jagger
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate… — William O. Douglas
The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently… — Alan Watts
The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged… — Freda Adler
To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law - the law… — Thomas Merton
Every story, each poem that a person shares, each voice that speaks against menstrual taboo, inspires me. — Additi Gupta
Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of political climates or… — Eve Ensler
The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare - one that… — George Soros
Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by… — Havelock Ellis
There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that… — Steven T. Katz
But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with. — Ethan Suplee
Every field has its taboos. In algebraic geometry the taboos are (1) writing a draft that can be followed by anyone but two or three… — Gian-Carlo Rota
Customs, morals â€” is there a difference? Woman, do you realize what you are doing? Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight,… — Jubal

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