Quotes About Taboo

Can someone please tell me why succubae are so bad?" Rónan said, quickly adding, "Ben does no' understand this either.

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people...religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin!

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

Shame is one of the greatest aphrodisiacs in the world, anyway, built into religion.

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

Religion is bad and drugs are good.

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.

Lucia opened the door. "They say not to discuss politics and religion on the first

The sacred demands the violation of what is normally the object of terrified respect.

Well, you're right. I'm a Freak." "Huh?" "I love being bullied. Being hit and kicked by others gets me totally excited. That's what kind of freak I am. Sorry if that bothers you.

Nothing was as revolting to American southerners (and many northerners) as sexual relations and marriage between black men and white women. Sex between the races became the greatest taboo and any violation, or suspected violation, was viewed as deserving immediate and summary punishment in the form of lynching. The Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist secret society, perpetrated many such killings. They could have taught the Hindu Brahmins a thing or two about purity laws.

At the beginning of the twentieth century the idea of giving voting rights to women was generally seen in the USA as outrageous; the prospect of a female cabinet secretary or Supreme Court justice was simply ridiculous; whereas homosexuality was such a taboo subject that it could not even be openly discussed.

Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable') and Leviticus 20:13 ('If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads').

People don't talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it's not an incredibly safe place to do it.

Sex is like an atom bomb. A potent weapon which fascinates and frightens. We're afraid to let it loose, yet we all have our finger on the button." --Zeena Schreck, Cuir Underground: Sado-Magic for Satan Interview, 1998

There are Tantrics who deliberately seek to do more active forms of renunciation, so transgression of social norms and breaking of taboo, and breaking of social taboos especially, is a form of renunciation.

Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.

One common function of arguments about language is to stand in for arguments on subjects people are reluctant to broach more directly.