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Quotes About Taboo

He plough on Sunday, Sir. Plough on Sunday?!
~ Arthur Miller
What a bad conscience religion must have is to be judged by the fact that it is forbidden under pain of such severe punishment to mock it. - On Religion
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Women are not allowed. Women are not allowed. Women are not allowed. Was it to protect the grave from the women or the women from the grave?
~ Arundhati Roy
They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. The laws that make grandmothers grandmothers, uncles uncles, mothers mothers, cousins cousins, jam jam, and jelly jelly. It was a time when uncles became fathers, mothers lovers, and cousins died and had funerals. It was a time when the unthinkable became thinkable and the impossible really happened.
~ Arundhati Roy Choudhury
After I cut off his penis, I sautéed it in rosemary butter and ate it But did you go to a meeting afterwards? Yes I wouldn't worry about it, then.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Oh, I had a great time. My thirty-three-year-old boyfriend said he wished they could package my cum like ice cream so he could eat it all day.
~ Augusten Burroughs
A naked blade is reckoned to be less obscene than a naked woman.
~ Spider Robinson
You can show a dozen guys murderin' each other on TV but you can't ever show two people making love. A naked blade is reckoned to be less obscene than a naked woman.
~ Spider Robinson
Most parents would not allow more than one daughter to remain unmarried. So if one daughter had already declared herself a spinster, her sister had to conduct a marriage ceremony with a dead man, called marrying a tablet, to retain her independence. These women later told historians that "it was not so easy to find an unmarried dead man to marry," so when one did become available, they vied with one another "to be the one who would get to marry him.
~ Stephanie Coontz
Women had to discard the doctrines of sexual purity that so often led to frigidity in marriage. Entrepreneurs were glad to help. For just ten cents a woman could buy a discreetly wrapped book titled How I Kept My Husband, which instructed her in how to give oral sex.32
~ Stephanie Coontz
There were other stories and other names. Second Base Stace, who had breasts in fourth grade and let some of the boys feel them. Vincent, who took acid and tried to flush a sofa down the toilet. Sheila, who allegedly masturbated with a hot dog and had to go to the emergency room. The list went on and on.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Masturbation is when you rub your genitals until you have an orgasm. Wow!
~ Stephen Chbosky
I thought that in those movies and television shows when they talk about having a coffee break that they should have a masturbation break.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I used to think it utterly normal that I suffered from "suicidal ideation" on an almost daily basis. In other words, for as long as I can remember, the thought of ending my life came to me frequently and obsessively.
~ Stephen Fry
It would be impossible to imagine going through life without swearing, and without enjoying swearing.
~ Stephen Fry
Either a municipal bog is a private place or it isn't. If it is a private place in which to shit, how is it not a private place in which to fellate?
~ Stephen Fry
Murder is the worst kind of pornography, murder is let me do what I want taken to its final extreme.
~ Stephen King
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
~ Francois Rabelais
Love is the fart Of every heart It pains the man when 'tis kept close, And others doth offend, when 'tis let loose.
~ John Suckling
Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.
~ Jon Anderson
If we had no sense of disgust, I believe we would also have no sense of the sacred.
~ Jonathan Haidt
The Sanctity/degradation foundation
~ Jonathan Haidt
Mum is sexing David.' It isn't sexing, it is having sex with.
~ Jonathan Self
He says, "I would walk around the township and I could point them out, which girls had been abused. You could see it in them. There's a luminosity to incest. The taboo is so strong and the damage so great. Luminosity--do you understand? It travels across oceans and down generations. They shine with it.
~ Emma Brockes