Ancient Quote by Sigmund Freud

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

In almost every place where we find totems we also find a law against persons of the same totem having sexual relations with one…

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Kate Burridge

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

— Pierre Trudeau

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

“Most moral philosophers consciously or unconsciously assume the essential correctness of our cultural sexual code — family, monogamy, continence, the postulate of privacy, ...…

— Robert A. Heinlein

If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed

— Robert Jordan

“Taboo comes from a Polynesian word that means “sacred or holy” rather than simply “prohibited.”

— Mary K. Greer

Religious strictures are often the source of attitudes toward nudity. Society urges the wearing of clothing partially as a means of controlling the powerful…

— Patricia Garfield

From our earliest beginnings, we have been a nation obsessed with sex, titillated by it at the same time that we fear it, elaborating…

— Lillian B. Rubin

“Forbidden things are always better”

— Anonymous

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

— Mark Twain