Quotes About Taboo

It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.

In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.

You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.

I am the Love that dare not speak its name.

I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.

Being depressed in black culture is not a thing. I just decided not to tell nobody, not even my friends.

I've always told my children that Americans will tell you pretty much anything, but that convention dictates that we don't like to talk money or politics.

I'm addicted to picking my nose. In a world of red tape and bureaucracy, where it takes forever to buy a house or get a cell-phone plan going, it's so instant to just stick your finger up there and go for something your own body produces.

Bad taste is not illegal. I always got my first laughs as a kid by saying inappropriate things. That's always how we're going to get our laughs as comics.

My very shy Punjabi father never taught me about the birds and bees. So shy was he that he may have thought he would get arrested for even talking about it.

The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!

On the traditional, heroic conception it is the normative statuses that matter, not the agent's attitudes. Parricide and incest ought not be. One should not act so as to incur the normative status of father killer and mother fucker.

It's a pain that we don't discuss or even understand.

He had also by this time begun to indulge in cannibalism, believing that his victims would live on inside him if he consumed their flesh.

Tessék, a puritán társadalmak átka: mindenki csak a nemiséggel foglalkozik.

I can help your world, Louis. Your people know little about sex. Which statement Louis prudently let slide.

Growing up, one realizes how many things one cannot wish for, the things that are forbidden, sinful. Indecent. But what is decent? To deny everything that you really want?

It feels like we're in a Harry Potter book talking about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

You look like you've just stepped out of two different porno movies.

it just proved that I think like an American. Violence is dandy, but God forbid you show sex on stage.

We settled this, Anita. The . . . ones who can't be named—" He glared at me. "I really hate that we can't even say their names out loud. It feels like we're in a Harry Potter book talking about He-Who-Must-Not-B e-Name d.

I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true.

If everyone was really having sex, they why was it paradoxically a hush-hush-whisper thing and a scream-it-online-and -in-the-cafeteria thing? If everyone was really having sex, why weren't more girls sporting baby bumps? I know the statistics.

I said "shit" in front of the church ladies