Taboo Quotes

167 Taboo quotes by 152 unique authors

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 — is there a difference? Woman, do you realize what you are doing? Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight,… — Jubal
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

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