Avoiding Quote by Kate Burridge

The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to man: they…

— H. L. Mencken

We can't treat issues as taboo because we find them unpleasant.

— Amber Rudd

I think it's important to break taboos for the same reason it's important to break laws and rules - because either you're a slave…

— George Carlin

The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a…

— Manu Bennett

Remember, taboos are just a map of what a society feels it's acceptable to be neurotic about. Taboos aren't rational.

— Frankie Boyle

Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. They are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to impose themselves…

— Sigmund Freud

Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say,…

— Henry Miller

There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.

— Bret Stephens

I grew up in a house where there were no taboos, so it came originally from a pretty innocent place, where I was shocked…

— Sarah Silverman

As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.

— Bertrand Russell

I never consciously set out to talk about taboos or anything like that.

— Roseanne Barr

“There is no way to understand the character of the taboo rules, except as a survival from some previous more elaborate cultural background. We…

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre