Quotes About Taboo

#1. 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

#2. And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.

Joyce Carol Oates

#3. I don't know if it's still taboo in our culture but counseling is a great thing because sometimes you need someone from the outside to sit down and go over whatever the questions or conflicts are and come to a resolution.

Gabrielle Dennis

#4. The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.

Charlie Brooker

#5. Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo, some real lowdown on life and existence that most parents and teachers either don't know or won't tell?

Alan Watts

#6. When someone watches us eating, we feel exposed. We might also harbor a suspicion that the person staring wants to steal food from our plate. The taboo, in any case, is long-standing.

Bee Wilson

#7. Ready to meet my best friend, then?"
I clipped my vest together in front and smiled tightly. "Should I bring a bottle of wine? Any taboo topics? Politics, life after death?"
"Yeah, just stay away from that one entirely.

Lia Habel

#8. In so-called primitive societies there are two words for power, mana and taboo: the power which creates and the power which destroys; the power which is benign and the power which is malign. Odd that we have retained in our vocabulary the word for dangerous power, taboo, and have lost mana.

Madeleine L'Engle

#9. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger's arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins. Henry

William Golding

#10. There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems to have been broken with impunity.

Steven T. Katz

#11. I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.

Clarice Lispector

#12. For thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Watts

#13. And though this encounter took place against an African sky, our brief enchantment symbolized the new world's greatest taboo - the hand of a very black man caressing the face of the blackest woman, with no shred of light entering into it, utter darkness alone representing God (71).

Kola Boof

#14. Elvis, stop dat! You know it is taboo to whistle at night. You will attract a spirit.

Chris Abani

#15. I had orgasms with clients, even though it was kind of a taboo at that time to admit it. Women weren't supposed to enjoy sex that much!

Annie Sprinkle

#16. Money is the last taboo. People will talk about their sex lives before they discuss their finances.

Marvin H. McIntyre

#17. This is where I break one last taboo: I'm incredibly glad I'm not a granny.

Kiki Dee

#18. It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.

Michael Musto

#19. When you are raised to believe that anything having to do with sex is forbidden and taboo, then of course that's all you want to know about. That becomes your complete and utter fascination. That is the surest way to interest a child.

Madonna Ciccone

#20. We live in a culture that embraces pluralism and relativism, and we are told every (lay that proselytizing people or trying to convert people to Christianity is taboo. But the Lord Himself was sent by the Father to seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:10), and He passed the baton to His disciples.

R.C. Sproul

#21. A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#22. Sexuality is such a taboo thing. I think it should be more out in the open, especially with young women. I think it's okay for them to explore their sexuality, as long as they own it and it's portrayed in the right way.

Evan Rachel Wood

#23. I was always intrigued by the idea of bringing things together that are considered taboo or risque and bringing them together with something of high elegance and sophistication.

Dita Von Teese

#24. 'Marnie' was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.

Tippi Hedren

#25. The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.

Bertrand Russell

#26. I think drugs played a big role in the Taboo scene. People were taking copious amounts of ecstasy, which had filtered over from New York, and at a certain point you were more likely to spend most of the night in the toilets at the club.

Boy George

#27. Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.

Chogyam Trungpa

#28. I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.

Chris Crutcher

#29. Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.

Ice Cube

#30. They glimpsed enough of each other to know they liked one another, but for us it is taboo to express such things. Instead he sent her poems she could not read. 'I admired his mind,' she says. 'And me, her beauty,' he laughs.

Malala Yousafzai

#31. I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.

Dana Goodyear

#32. When a basic human need becomes a taboo, it is only a matter of time before it turns into a hideous industry.

Stephan Attia

#33. Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] - things that you probably shouldn't like.

Boy George

#34. To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.

Meghan O'Rourke

#35. People dont want to hear about that, dont want to entertain it. Vast numbers will watch two naked girls online shit in a cup then eat it, but babies enjoying the living hell out of breasts as a supreme source of endless free nourishment and good health for all remains taboo.

Elisa Albert

#36. Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.

Mal Peet

#37. Failure is a social taboo.

Anup Kochhar

#38. It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of the left hemisphere can leave people with no articulate speech other than the ability to swear, spout cliches and song lyrics.

Steven Pinker

#39. It's taboo," he said. "When they ask you why you want to be an investment banker, you're supposed to talk about the challenges, and the thrill of doing deals, and the excitement of working with such high-calibre people, but never, ever mention money.

Michael Lewis

#40. Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.

Saul Bellow

#41. Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.

Martin Parr

#42. When Bound was released, Boys don't Cry wasn't out yet. Therefore it was very taboo to play a lesbian. I loved the part, because girls never get to play the typical guy parts.

Gina Gershon

#43. It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.

William O. Douglas

#44. Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos. Desire in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the taboo. It presupposes man in conflict with himself.

Georges Bataille

#45. I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that dark place.

Ricky Williams

#46. I wasn't part of the Taboo crowd the same way I was part of the New Romantics. I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.

Boy George

#47. The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.

Paul Watson

#48. To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.

Frans De Waal

#49. Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered taboo before class.

Jim Shepard

#50. It's a taboo that comes back over and over, to suggest that women can feel divided - that you can love your child and want to do everything for it, and at the same time want to put it away from you and reclaim something of yourself.

Rachel Cusk

#51. In most Arab countries, it is still taboo for a woman to live alone and honour killings are still sanctioned. It is estimated that in Jordan, approximately 20 women are murdered by their own relatives every year. Most

Harvey Tripp

#52. To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you are wasting the time you spend thinking deeply. One of the rewards of deep thought is the hot glow of anger at discovering a wrong, but if anger is taboo, thought will starve to death.

Jules Henry

#53. No matter how much people in fashion think we're so cool and avant-garde, for most fashion people, creativity is quite taboo.

Riccardo Tisci

#54. Male nudity, full-frontal nudity, has always been considered a lot more taboo than female nudity. As far back as I can remember, there's been a double standard between men and women. I think it's time that men get equal time in terms of nudity.

Darren Star

#55. Every story, each poem that a person shares, each voice that speaks against menstrual taboo, inspires me.

Additi Gupta

#56. We exist in this weirdly schizo culture, where sex is everywhere in the media, and yet, at the same time, you don't sit down and have a conversation about what you did in bed last night with your friends. Despite the ubiquity of sex, it's still a taboo when it comes to day-to-day conversation.

Mary Roach

#57. In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo.

Michael Leunig

#58. The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.

Raymond Moody

#59. It's naive for us to think that we can end all violence,abuse,hatred and racism ... when as a nation many consider just talking about the subject taboo & uncomfortable. #TRUTH

Timothy Pina

#60. Conservatism is like plaque; even once scraped away, it builds up again to problematic levels, so that what is now permissible can yet again become taboo -

Steve Toltz

#61. Breastfeeding should not be taboo - and bottle feeding should not be judged - it's ALL fun for the whole family,

Jaime King

#62. Blow jobs are okay, but kissing clients is still a taboo.

Annie Sprinkle

#63. It has been argued that food and eating have replaced sex as our foremost cultural taboo.7 To some extent I agree with this but would point out that the taboo is not against food, or sex, or flesh, but against a loss of control.

Marya Hornbacher

#64. I'm not anything like Brad Pitt or Antonio Banderas, but maybe it's the taboo element of my image, which is almost deathlike, that attracts them. I should be the last person that [people] should be attracted to.

Marilyn Manson

#65. Americans were happy to celebrate their super-rich and, at least sometimes, worry about their poor. But putting those two conversations together and talking about economic inequality was pretty much taboo.

Chrystia Freeland

#66. I suppose all of those New Romantic clubs were quite up their own asses in a way. Well, Taboo was up its own ass in a different way, but not in terms of rules.

Boy George

#67. Suicide is a whispered word, inappropriate for polite company. Family and friends often pretend they do not hear the word's dread sound even when it is uttered. For suicide is a taboo subject that stigmatizes not only the victim but the survivors as well.

Earl A Grollman

#68. But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with.

Ethan Suplee

#69. The fact that abortion is still a taboo subject means that opponents of abortion get to define it however suits them best.

Lindy West

#70. Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

Rob Sheffield

#71. I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.

Anna Deavere Smith

#72. Everything, taboo and familiar, occurs on the same screen.

Lee Siegel

#73. When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.

Anselm Kiefer

#74. ... "shagging" - a quasi-comical activity, like belching or farting, except it was more taboo and more necessary than these.

Amit Chaudhuri

#75. We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

Christina Stead

#76. You're not as much of a lost cause as she was. I mean, with her, I had to overcome her deep, epic love with a Russian warlord. You and I just have to overcome hundreds of years' worth of deeply ingrained prejudice and taboo between our two races. Easy.

Richelle Mead

#77. There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.

Richard Hell

#78. I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they just ooze sex. Vampires are all the big themes in life in one attractive, bloodsucking package.

Melissa De La Cruz

#79. Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.

Ang Lee

#80. We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the understanding that there's a class war going on.

Noam Chomsky

#81. I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

Thomas Dolby

#82. My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.

China Mieville

#83. Leaving something unnamed makes it quite literally unspeakable: a void, an absence, a taboo.

Peggy Orenstein

#84. It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by a taboo.

Garrett Hardin

#85. Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo ... In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at sight of which great grownup babies are expected to hide their eyes.

Clive Bell

#86. The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.

Amy Bloom

#87. Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).

Warren Farrell

#88. Reflection may be essential to a scholar, but it's taboo in social intercourse.

Soseki Natsume

#89. I know I will be breaking a taboo. But I'm sure that it will provoke a new discussion. It's time things change. I feel 30 and want to look that way again.

Brigitte Nielsen

#90. What's your name? Or is that taboo?--Cinnamon, Hot, Deadly Desire

Judy H.

#91. Jihad amongst the Muslims today has become like a taboo
subject that is discussed over coffee. The one who writes and
speaks about Jihad has not even spent a minute in the battlefield.

Sheikh Abdullah

#92. I don't want my children to ever think that food is taboo.

Karen Elson

#93. It's taboo in our society to discuss abortion on anything less than a political level, but I know the truth. Someone close to each and every one of us has had an abortion. The experience is common, but I do not believe it is taken lightly. Women who have exercised their right to choose never forget.

Susan Wicklund

#94. Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

Park Chan-wook

#95. My experience of my father's death was that it was still taboo; nobody would meet me after my father died because they didn't know what to say.

Simon McBurney

#96. I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

Gemma Arterton

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

Bob Dylan

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#99. 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

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

Mason Cooley