Taboo Quotes

167 quotes by 152 authors

Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of… — Ezra Miller
It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of the… — Steven Pinker
But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo. — Steven Pinker
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect… — Adrienne Rich
The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort… — Tom Robbins
Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing. — Rob Sheffield
I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that dark place. — Ricky Williams
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in… — James A. Baldwin
All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless. — Anais Nin
Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even spiritual experience, moderates… — Sam Harris
If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held… — Bertrand Russell
I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual… — Robert A. Heinlein
My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of… — China Mieville
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to… — Joyce Carol Oates
The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We use this word… — Sam Harris
It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting… — Sam Harris
Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery farm in England,… — Douglas Adams
Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would… — H. L. Mencken
Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards… — William Golding
She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never… — Tove Jansson

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