Quotes About Taboo

Are you kidding I was raised Catholic, my mom just came back from a Saint Francis Pilgrimage in Italy and bought a huge statue to prove it, big as you. Big as you. Catholics aren't like that, they can be a little slutty at times, sure and there's the pedophilia, but they aren't allowed to be strippers! It's not allowed!

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The opposite of sad is down's syndrome.

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.

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

... there are certain questions that must never be asked. Of anyone. Even oneself.

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough.

Jokes were a good way to talk about something while acting like you weren't really talking about it.

Reid interrupted. "What kind of jokes are we talking about?" We all looked at each other, not sure what to say. Reid tried again, looking at his notes. "It says here, 'Franken made jokes about the Holocaust.' What does that mean?" Diane handed our poll to Harry and pointed to the joke we had tested: "I think a bad Hanukkah gift for Anne Frank would have been a drum set."*

Once you even acknowledge that there is a line, that there are things you shouldn't be allowed to joke about, that there are words that can't be said no matter the context, you're selling out the very idea of comedy.

There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone goes, 'Oh, that's a bit heavy,' or 'Eew, disgusting.' And literature is a place where that stuff goes; where people whisper to each other across books, the writer to the reader. I think that stops you feeling lonely – in the deeper sense, lonely.

How old does one have to be still to say tits?

I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.

It wasn't so much all the sex that robbed me of my moral bearings, but all the narcotics. I must say, there's something about opium that goes very well with lesbianism.

The Kamasutra warns that conception with women on top can alter the sexuality of the children conceived.

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

Comme il n'y avait pas de couverts, il a mangé avec ses doigts, mais en utilisant sa main gauche, ce qui est très grave, et constitue une offense délibérée dans l'Atlas, où la main gauche est considérée comme impure, m'a expliqué Valérie tandis que l'habitant nous jetait hors de sa maison. Étrange Aziz. Provocateur, irréligieux, inculte, ignorant de ses propres traditions ? Non. Il me tend des perches.

To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals.

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

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.

The words we use to surround death are bizarre. Like we're hiding something.

Now it was rare to lose a parent or lose a child; and people wouldn't discuss it, in case it invited bad luck in. In case it was tempting fate, or superstition. She thought of how many people wouldn't talk about Hari's speechlessness in case drawing attention to it would somehow visit it upon their own children.