Break Quote by Pierre Trudeau

The most ancient and important taboo prohibitions are the two basic laws of totemism: not to kill the totem animal and to avoid sexual…

— Sigmund Freud

“We must face the fact that society is founded on intolerance. [. . .] We may prate of toleration as we will; but society…

— George Bernard Shaw

Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the…

— Polycarp

Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly…

— Daniel Webster

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 are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of…

— Alain de Botton

The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get at the…

— Granville Hicks

We'd better work hard on getting rid of that must - Other people must do what I want them to do!" It's what makes…

— Albert Ellis

Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we should be…

— Benjamin Franklin

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

— John F. Kennedy

Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?

— Storm Jameson