Taboo Quotes

167 quotes by 152 authors

Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo,… — Alan Watts
In distinguishing between Islamic teachings and social taboos, we must remember that Islam forbids injustice; Injustice against people, against nations, against women. It shuns race,… — Benazir Bhutto
Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists,… — Saul Bellow
I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo. — Alicia Silverstone
Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy — Gunnar Myrdal
I know I will be breaking a taboo. But I'm sure that it will provoke a new discussion. It's time things change. I feel 30… — Brigitte Nielsen
To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel,… — Meghan O'Rourke
There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed. — Frank Langella
Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims about your attitudes… — Stephen Bayley
There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether… — Robert Cormier
I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about. — Chris Crutcher
I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo. — Thomas Dolby
After all, we scientific workers ... like women, are the victims of fashion: at one time we wear dissociated ions, at another electrons; and we… — Henry Edward Armstrong
... if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in… — June Jordan
Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen. — Bob Dylan
The naked truth is still taboo. — Bob Dylan
I know I'm breaking a taboo by using the term antiwhite racism, but I do so intentionally, because it's the reality some of our fellow… — Jean-Francois Cope
Brother says he's telling about you playing Doctor with that girl. — Stevie Wonder
Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores. — Bob Dylan
Can't wait to show my girls he sucked the piss out of my pussy. — Lil Kim

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