Quotes About Taboo

for someone or something that no one will discuss

Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss. —GEORGE ORWELL

envy is the one deadly sin that no American can ever admit to...

It's taboo," he said. "When they ask you why you want to be an investment banker, you're supposed to talk about the challenges, and the thrill of doing deals, and the excitement of working with such high-calibre people, but never, ever mention money.

Hitler's doctors told U.S. intelligence officers that their patient had devoted surprising energy to examining his own feces; and there was pretty strong evidence that one of his favorite things to do with women was to have them poop on him.

To raise abortion with Steve Forbes seems about as natural as telling your grandmother that you got laid last Saturday night.

And among adults, adultery is an unmentionable thing, which only occurs in the Bible and in Mobile.

It's strictly out of bounds.

We are full of anarchy. We take our clothes off because we shouldn't take our clothes off. And we behave worse in other countries.

Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but all cultures (save the Eskimo) sanction at least one such plant and, just as invariably, strenuously forbid certain others. Along with the temptation seems to come the taboo.

We don't die well in America. Ask people where do you want to die, and they will tell you, at home with their loved ones. But most of us die in an ICU. The biggest taboo in America is the conversation about death. Sure, it's gotten better; now we have hospices, which didn't exist not so long ago. But to a doctor, it's still an insult to let a patient go.

I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid that. It's hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.

The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.

I am so in love with my brother right now!

In 1956 he was found to be carrying a large and diversified collection of pornographic material, and he was invited to take his sordid continental habits elsewhere. Thus he was unable to enjoy, as it were, his own finest erection.

New Rule: Bring back a little pubic hair. Not a lot, I'm not talking about reviving that 1973 look that said I'm liberated and I'm smuggling a hedgehog.I just want a friendly, fuzzy calling card that's a middle ground between toddler smooth and Dr. Livingston, I presume? It's supposed to have some hair on it. It's a pussy, not Dr. Evil's cat. Call me old school, but there's a name for a guy who needs it hair-free: He's called a pedophile.

thirteen-year-old boys looking at porn for the first time

Both had indulged in, if not Black Magic, then certainly magic of a darker hue than seemed desirable or legitimate.

Why even call it a fuck? Why not be clear and call it a seminal emission in a preapproved orifice?

Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.

Condemned and executioner are not coupled in a primitive rite.

I would like to discuss the psychological determinates in your use of copulative profanity.

This gave him another opportunity to use one of those words that hung before him, shining and alluring. Far away in the distance there were more of them, dangerously sharp. Words that were not for him, but which he used all the same on the sly, and which had an exciting flavour and gave him a tingling feeling in the head. They were a little dangerous, all of them.

Does Mary Poppins have an orgasm? Does she go to the bathroom? I assure you, she does.