Acts Quote by Mary Roach

This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to…

— Sigmund Freud

I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows). I like…

— Anna Journey

“We must get more talk about taboos out there, if we are to become thought partners that elevate our self (soul) care by being…

— Dr. Tracey Bond

“Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing impulse humans have.”

— John Steinbeck

There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad,…

— George Carlin

It seems to me a measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable activities should…

— Otto Gross

“As the flesh gets in the way of our ideals, we regulate ourselves unto enslavement and inhumanity. The human spirit then dies and the…

— Earl Warhus

I love the fact we do break taboos.

— Phillip Schofield

All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress

— Kate Burridge

We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.

— Ilka Chase

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

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

— Frankie Boyle