Taboo Quotes

167 Taboo quotes by 152 unique authors

It is especially taboo for a wine writer to admit that he or she likes the buzz. But wine is a full sensory experience. It's… — Natalie MacLean
Race is the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear their unspoken views will be deemed racist.… — Eva Paterson
The time has come to make the protection of children - all our children - a common cause that can unite us across the boundaries… — Olara Otunnu
We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the understanding… — Noam Chomsky
To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you are wasting the… — Jules Henry
Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must find a way… — Gyorgy Ligeti
Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes.… — Marvin Harris
Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no sense to ask… — Chalmers Johnson
To an age which has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed, pride, sex, and self-will, the church mumbles on about God's kindness but… — J I Packer
When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about… — Anselm Kiefer
Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction.… — Christa Wolf
Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place — Kate Millett
The ultimate [act] that would be the taboo, to show how bad some villain is, was to have somebody being raped, you know? I don't… — Mark Millar
Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like… — Robert Byron
To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals… — Frans de Waal
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

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