Quotes About Taboo

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

Being on the toilet stool is the grossest thing there is, to me.

When political correctness first started coming around, it ruined Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Murphy's stand-up career. Sam Kinison died at just the right time, 'cause no one was going to tolerate what he was saying anymore either.

I've no problems with cuss words. All of us use them. Those who say they don't are lying. People can tolerate English cuss words but find the Hindi ones a bit revolting.

I love Cillian Murphy's character in 'Peaky Blinders' and Tom Hardy's in 'Taboo' - theses are characters that, as audience members, we follow along with and root for. But our own morality is tested throughout that journey, because these characters ride a thin line between morality and amorality.

One thing I will say, they often take it better than a man. Pain, that is. Probably the residue of tolerance from when they were all bloody witches and got stoned or burned or drowned for it, eh lad? Never tell your mother I said that, by the way.

Oenother took out a leather phallus, which she proceeded to coat with oil, ground pepper, and crushed nettle seeds. Gradually, she inserted it into my anus. The cruel crone kept sprinkling the fluid over my thighs. * She mixed nasturtium seed with artemesia and spread it over my genitals, then, with a switch in her limber hand, beat everything below my navel.

Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.

You took out a book on blow-job technique from the British Library? They shouldn't have books like that in there!

There are certain questions that scientists may not ask, or, more accurately, for some questions, there are certain answers that scientists must a priori preclude from consideration.

The storyless story is a vagina with teeth.

Q: Why do Jewish men watch porn films backward? A: They love the bit where the prostitute gives back the money.

Q: Why don't blondes talk when having sex? A: Their mothers taught them not to talk with their mouths full.

I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.

We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

I'm having a difficult time killing my parents

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

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

No Protestant child exists who does not masturbate. That art is the earliest accomplishment his religion confers upon him. Also the earliest her religion confers upon her.

After a while, marriage is a sibling relationship--marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest.

Since Henry Miller's Tropic books, of course, it has become difficult to talk sensibly about girls' c*nts.

And Keith felt it again (he felt it several times a day): the tingle of license. Everyone could swear now, if they wanted to. The word *fuck* was available to both sexes. It was like a sticky toy, and it was there if you wanted it.

Sex, sin, and the Devil were early linked.