Quotes About Taboo

#1. The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea.

Larry Kramer

#2. Prostitution was illegal in Kenya and was culturally a taboo. But what was a young orphaned girl with little education to do when she had to fend for three of her younger siblings? As she watched the waves hit the shores, she noticed a young handsome man staring at her from a distance.

Nya Wampaze

#3. The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#4. A lot of Donna Summer and things that maybe weren't trendy anymore or weren't hip in gay clubs but you'd hear them at Taboo.

Boy George

#5. There is no policy too sensitive to question, and no subject so taboo that you cannot even mention it.

Lee Hsien Loong

#6. Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo.

Thomas Moore

#7. Strangely, the greater the debilitating toll poverty takes on the lives of America's schoolchildren, the more taboo discussions of poverty have become.

Linsey McGoey

#8. What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. This girl sparks my sadistic side.

Shinjirou

#10. The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.

Manu Bennett

#11. Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.

Richard Serra

#12. There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.

Susan Sontag

#13. It occurred to him that he may have led them into a topic he had no intentions of exploring further. Fantasies, sure. Wishes, all the time. But reality? No - this was taboo. This would end in nothing good. She

Marissa Meyer

#14. I'm a virgin Mr Cohen," Carrie said, "I've never been with a man before.

Kassandra Cross

#15. I didn't grow up in a naked household, but nudity was not a taboo thing. My mother was an artist and there were naked sculptures and paintings all over the place.

Ingrid Michaelson

#16. A lot of men not only fear emotional pain, they are afraid to be transparent and vulnerable. To let an outsider even glimpse their confusion or suffering is a taboo that starts in adolescence and becomes more entrenched with adulthood.

Michael R. French

#17. You feel pretty ,manly to me," I breathed out, all jelly-legged with half-mast eyes.
"And you feel like a woman worthy of a fight, Ms.Greene.

L.J. Shen

#18. The Frenchmen tried to explain that sexual intercourse between males was taboo (despite anything the Brits might have told them about French sailors),

Stephen Clarke

#19. I know I'm breaking a taboo by using the term antiwhite racism, but I do so intentionally, because it's the reality some of our fellow citizens live with, and remaining quiet about it only aggravates their trauma.

Jean-Francois Cope

#20. When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.

Manal Al-Sharif

#21. The worst possible sexual education: a taboo imposed by the Catholic church plus romantic literature elevating love to unreal heights plus the obscene language of my peers. After all, I was nearly born in the nineteenth century, and I have no tender feelings for it.

Czeslaw Milosz

#22. It's taboo for me to date wrestlers.

Stephanie

#23. We've made so many advances in other areas - civil rights, gay rights - but ageism is still an area that's taboo and not talked about and dealt with.

Madonna Ciccone

#24. Why the anchor?"
"Because sometimes, it's nice to feel like there's someone who can save you.

L.J. Shen

#25. You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.

Lawrence Kasdan

#26. Sexuality in girls isn't explored as much as it should be. Everyone gets freaked out - it's quite a taboo thing for girls to wanna have sex

Maisie Williams

#27. She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time.

Tove Jansson

#28. The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

Judith Lewis Herman

#29. Some of the things I'm talking about are very taboo and swept under the rug. As far as suicide and depression and alcoholism and stuff like that. Our community doesn't believe in therapy, they believe in dealing with it.

Stacy Barthe

#30. I love watching the National Geographic channel. That show 'Taboo'? I love it!

Keshia Knight Pulliam

#31. I'm in love with my second cousin.

Bob Dylan

#32. When people have tried everything and have discovered that nothing works, they will tend to revert to what they know best - which will often be the tribe, the totem, or the taboo.

Christopher Hitchens

#33. Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

Adam Ant

#34. The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

Aldrich Ames

#35. That civilised life cannot be lived without taboos - that some of them may indeed be justified, and that therefore taboo is not in itself an evil to be vanquished - is a thought too subtle for the aesthetes of nihilism.

Theodore Dalrymple

#36. How can we pick and choose which parts of the Bible to follow? One thing is God's will and another is just cultural differences? What if it's all cultural? What if homosexuality or saving yourself for marriage is as outdated as women staying silent in church or Leviticus forbidding tattoos?

Trevor D. Richardson

#37. In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.

G. Willow Wilson

#38. All of my life I've made things that are like fragmented mirrors of what I perceive to be the world. As far as I'm concerned the fact that in 1990 the human body is still a taboo subject is unbelievably ridiculous. What exactly is frightening about the human body?

David Wojnarowicz

#39. All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.

Anais Nin

#40. Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.

Mason Cooley

#41. I refuse to believe all men are pigs and women competing whores.-ANASTASIA

Anastasia

#42. Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness ... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.

Mahatma Gandhi

#43. I don't think of those things [from farting, to male on male affection, to crossdressing] as being taboo, I suppose, so it didn't strike me as, "Oh, I'm breaking boundaries and stuff ... "

Daniel Radcliffe

#44. Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.

Bob Dylan

#45. I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

Andrew Lang

#46. Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but all cultures (save the Eskimo) sanction at least one such plant and, just as invariably, strenuously forbid certain others. Along with the temptation seems to come the taboo.

Michael Pollan

#47. Playing with numbers was still considered taboo, a subject best left to the later years, despite America's obvious and enduring math handicap. For too long, what American

Amanda Ripley

#48. To look without fear is a good subversive tool, undermining taboos.

Wolfgang Tillmans

#49. All the things that are taboo are the things that are not normal, and all the things that are not normal are the things that are exclusively about physically being a woman.

Caitlin Moran

#50. Yes, Mel. That's exactly why I left without explaining. Because I think about you before I think about myself. Always remember that, Little Ballerina. Always.

L.J. Shen

#51. Money is a more taboo subject than sex. If you don't believe me, think about this: you have friends who tell you the intimate details of their sex-lives but they would be shocked if you asked them how much money they make.

Patricia King

#52. Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.

Alan Watts

#53. 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 unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

Alan Watts

#54. I don't like to be disparaging about my past roles. That's the only taboo that I don't like to cross.

Neil Patrick Harris

#55. I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.

Mohsin Hamid

#56. When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

Todd Solondz

#57. The most ancient and important taboo prohibitions are the two basic laws of totemism: not to kill the totem animal and to avoid sexual intercourse with members of the totem clan of the opposite sex.

Sigmund Freud

#58. This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects.

Sigmund Freud

#59. But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.

Steven Pinker

#60. The naked truth is still taboo.

Bob Dylan

#61. This is Nightside," said Deadboy. "We do ten impossible things before breakfast, just fora cheap thrill. Abandon all taboos, ye who enter here.

Simon R. Green

#62. Stigma's power lies in silence. The silence that persists when discussion and action should be taking place. The silence one imposes on another for speaking up on a taboo subject, branding them with a label until they are rendered mute or preferably unheard.

M.B. Dallocchio

#63. For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

Jon Scieszka

#64. Silent or gagged women are powerless women. A powerful woman is one who can speak out to challenge existing power structures or to explore previously taboo territory.

Julian Barnes

#65. In fact the taboo
against killing and eating one's relatives is the most fundamental
precondition if people are to live together and cooperate on a
daily basis.

Marvin Harris

#66. 15 or 20 years ago it would not have been possible for me to come out. Back then, people still had such narrow views, but today many of them are more liberal. Being gay is no longer a taboo in many parts of society. That has affected sports, even boxing.

Orlando Cruz

#67. It's not something a kid like you should've gotten ahold of.

Shinjirou

#68. Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The New York Times were sclerotic, meaning, "completely turned to rock." The critics here are that way.

James Purdy

#69. If personality expresses itself by acts of discrimination, and discrimination, besides being taboo, has no material to work on, what becomes of personality? It shrinks, it atrophies, it dies.

L.P. Hartley

#70. In the kingdom of Iluji, a taboo was only a taboo when it has a non-participating witness. And in this land blanketed with darkness, secret was the code of every deed and the darkness was the only constant observing angel.

Ray Anyasi

#71. I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.

Elizabeth George

#72. You love it when I'm disgusting. In fact, the dirtier I talked, the more you screamed. The sooner you admit that, the easier it will be for both of us. I only ask for one day from you, AJ. One day for my lost opportunity.

Jaimie Roberts

#73. Technically, Japan and South Korea normalized their diplomatic ties 50 years ago, but this wasn't included in the Normalization Treaty because forced prostitution, coerced sex just was taboo to even talk about.

Elise Hu

#74. The taboo for straight actors playing gay is gone ... My mother was squirming a bit in the theater because she comes from a different generation.

Dean Cain

#75. Loneliness feels like such a shameful experience, so counter to the lives we are supposed to lead, that it becomes increasingly inadmissible, a taboo state whose confession seems destined to cause others to turn and flee.

Olivia Laing

#76. A child should never be made to feel that sex and/or his/her sexuality is taboo or a mistake.

Asa Don Brown

#77. Is that where you draw the line? I'll never understand why some things are more taboo than others."
"And that's what makes you so kinky, the fact that you don't see the difference.

R.K. Lilley

#78. Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

Adrienne Rich

#79. Nothing is taboo if you have an angle on it. That said, critiquing women's human shells isn't my thang. Though there's probably something funny or interesting to be said about those who do it, and what that comes from.

Sarah Silverman

#80. It's really important to have a healthy sexuality and to be open about it. It's not a taboo. It's normal.

Eva Longoria

#81. Because that was the problem with society. It cared too much about who you fell in love with but never about why. The why matters.

L.J. Shen

#82. If he'd learned one thing while he'd been away, it was that loneliness is the most taboo subject in the world. Forget sex or politics or religion. Or even failure. Loneliness is what clears out a room.

Douglas Coupland

#83. When I first started, you could go to a college campus and it was not cool to wear a country artist's shirt on campus. It was taboo, and there was a stigma involved. In the time from then till now, I'm amazed at how much things have changed. It's young now, it's cool, it's hip

Eric Church

#84. In the literary world today, Christianity has pretty well replaced sex as the present pet taboo, not only because Christianity is so often distorted by Christians as well as non-Christians, but because it is too wild and free for the timid.

Madeleine L'Engle

#85. Whenever I see a taboo, I just think that's something we need to drag screaming out into the light and discuss. Because taboos are where our fears live, and taboos are the things that keep us tiny. Particularly for women.

Caitlin Moran

#86. That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset someone.

Lewis Black

#87. I try to destroy taboo in fashion-which is something I learned as a kid. I come from the street, and you have to be a survivor,

Riccardo Tisci

#88. We all make mistakes, but it is those that learn from them that rise to the top.

Taboo

#89. Every time I write these words they become a taboo,
Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true,
Living my life in the margin, and that metaphor was proof.

Kendrick Lamar

#90. Got 27 children I never see.

Tom Waits

#91. If you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo left: sex as a naturaland vital thing.

D.H. Lawrence

#92. I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.

Alicia Silverstone

#93. For 10 years, Kosovo was taboo. No one could officially tell the truth.

Ivica Dacic

#94. In the black community when we think of a couselor or sitting down with a therapist there is that taboo attached to people of being psychotic and crazy. Really it's not it's just sitting down having a conversation.

Gabrielle Dennis

#95. I want to break the taboo against questioning this drive for maximum longevity.

Katy Butler

#96. Once you break one taboo, others soon come thumgbling down. Once you start rolling downhill, you carry on rolling until you reach the lowest point. For someone with no aim in life and who has never known love, leading a respectable life seems utterly pointless and unbearable.

Rika Yokomori

#97. It is the desire for irreverence as much as anything else that brought me first to poetry. The need to make fun of authority, break taboos, celebrate the body and its functions, claim that one has seen angels in the same breath as one says that there is no god.

Charles Simic

#98. Justice without strength isn't justice at all.

Shinjirou

#99. The classic comedian says there's nothing that's taboo; if you laugh at one thing you've got to laugh at everything, that comedy is taking people to dark areas and showing them the light.

Bo Burnham

#100. I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I can't'. They say it's taboo. It's ingrained in our heads that it's bad, when it's not bad at all. It's a very beautiful thing.

Green Day