Taboos Quotes

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The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been… — Helen Reddy
I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States — Kyle MacLachlan
Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first place. Except where… — Ross Douthat
Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the same ambivalent mixture… — Rene Konig
Sex was always surrounded by taboos, and I don't see it necessarily as a manifestation of evil. I think that sexuality is first and foremost… — Paulo Coelho
Those who see what's obvious aren't necessarily brighter than others. They're just more likely to observe that the emperor is naked. Like children, they see… — Richard Farson
There have been only two taboos in the world: sex and death. It is very strange why sex and death have been the two taboos… — Rajneesh
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
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
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
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
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
Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality. — Diego Rivera
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
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
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
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

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