Quotes About Taboo

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.

y si no estuviese habituado a designar a tales personas con el nombre de neuróticos obsesivos hallaría muy adecuado el nombre de enfermedad del tabú para caracterizar sus estados.

prohibición, porque sin ella hubiera penetrado la

Em matéria de sexualidade, somos todos, no momento, doentes ou sãos, não mais do que hipócritas.

Si tengo el deseo de ver desnuda a una mujer, mi padre morirá.» El afecto penoso toma claramente un matiz inquietante y supersticioso y da ya origen a impulsos tendentes a hacer algo para alejar la desgracia, tales como se impondrán luego en las ulteriores medidas de protección.

It was not murder that fulfilled Sade's erotic nature; it was literature.

It'll be George Michael all over again, Dad mutters darkly to Mum, and I give a sharp intake of breath. That is AGAINST our family code. No one was supposed to mention George Michael ever again. We even turn off Carless Whisper whenever it comes on.

Oed. Must I not fear my mother's marriage-bed?

No, I can't repeat it, it's unholy.

Niin monet miehet ovat naineet unissaan äitiään.

In some company it's perfectly all right to prick your finger, but very bad form to finger your prick.

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

Some might say that suicide is for cowards. I dare them to hold a razor to their wrists and say it as they slice into their own flesh.

Through dancing many maidens have been unmaidened, whereby I may say it is the storehouse and nursery of bastardy.

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.

Nowadays nobody bothers, and it is considered in slightly bad taste to even raise the question of God's existence. Matters of religion are like matters of sexual preference: they are not discussed in public, and even the abstract questions are discussed only by bores.

They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.

She knew for a fact, for instance, that what the Polo sisters did behind the closed doors of their adjoining rooms was still illegal in Alabama.

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.

Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.

Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down to a naked man who's nailed to a cross? It's like a bad leather bar.

back then, even talking about rock and roll at the Royal Academy would have been sacrilege, like turning up to church and telling the vicar that you're really interested in worshipping Satan.

What's the big fucking deal? Lots of amazing people have committed suicide, and they turned out alright.

Do something a bit shit, like getting in a fight outside the TAB or getting a DUI, and people around here will bag the hell out of you. But something beyond the pale - beat your wife, hurt your kid, stalk a bloke because you think he murdered your sister - those things go unspoken.