Quotes About Taboo

If you're politically correct, chances are you're not coming to one of my shows. I get to go onstage and say things that everybody thinks all the time, but can't say out loud.

Every time the word 'breastfeeding' is mentioned, there's a snicker on the House floor. This has been happening since the dawn of creation. Can we finally get a grip on it?

I think it's the things we don't talk about that make us old before out time.

People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It's exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.

If there's any time you should be on drugs it's when you're pregnant, cause it sucks.

Political correctness is a minefield

Then we dared Pogo to cut his wrist with a knife, which he did several times.

You know, it's a funny thing. You can smoke yourself to death, drink yourself to death, work yourself to death, and even eat yourself to death. But that's all acceptable. The only thing you can't do medically is screw yourself to death, and yet that's where they put all the obstacles.

Él, tan educado y pulido con su vocabulario ante la gente, sentía siempre, en la intimidad de su diario, una invencible necesidad de escribir obscenidades. Por razones que no comprendía bien, la coprolalia le hacía bien

They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned.

La gente dice que siempre hay que decir la verdad. Pero no lo dicen en serio porque no se te permite decirle a los viejos que son viejos y no se te permite decirle a la gente que huele raro o a un adulto que se ha tirado un pedo.

Were it not for their aversion to pigs, the Egyptians would probably have invented ham, for they salt-cured meat and knew how to domesticate the pig. But Egyptian religious leadership pronounced pigs carriers of leprosy, made pig farmers social outcasts, and never depicted the animal on the walls of tombs.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. [ Mark Twain, a Biography ]

Sat - sex is good for the voice. Why don't they teach you that in school?

with skull-and-crossbones painted in chicken blood.

Fortunately, octo-cannibalism is the sort of thing that leaves me morally outraged without actually ruining my appetite

There are some things which no novelist, no historian, should attempt; some few scenes in life's drama which even no poet should dare to paint.

There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel

It was a grief about which you could not, must not, dare not speak.

All neurotics, and many others besides, take exception to the fact that 'inter urinas et faeces nascimur.

In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.

Every one has wishes which he would not like to tell to others, which he does not want to admit even to himself.

Crawley, in language differing only slightly from current psychoanalytic terminology, Crawley declared that each individual is separated from others by a taboo of personal isolation... a narcissism of minor differences.