Taboo Quotes

167 Taboo quotes by 152 unique authors

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
Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo. — Thomas Moore
A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and… — Jasper Fforde
So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone who willfully indulges… — David Platt
Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is 'open-minded' and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless… — Julius Evola
Suffering should not define you as a woman! And just because you’re a man it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t affect you! HELP HER to… — Susan Sarandon
I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I… — Billie Joe Armstrong
You're not as much of a lost cause as she was. I mean, with her, I had to overcome her deep, epic love with a… — Richelle Mead
A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed. Education may be the only thing people still believe in in the United States.… — Peter Thiel
Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did… — Rani Mukerji
I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even… — John Naisbitt

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