Quotes About Taboo

The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.

Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation.

People just want to know something, anything. It's all the stuff you never want to talk about, the private stuff.

I was always fascinated by forbidden things people didn't want to talk about, like death.

Tell me it's forbidden, unthinkable, and that's where I want to go. Because the chances are it's complicated, and the complications are meaningful.

You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.

The Queen's Consort?' 'Yes. I once robbed him.' 'Indeed! And what did you take?' 'His virginity.

Art is sanctioned pornography

An unwritten law forbids us to speak of it, and even the thought conjures dark names, dark times.

From what I can gather, there's quite a lot you don't like talking about!

Creatures that feed upon blood are abhorred and feared by the majority of humans.

Since most of us are products of a culture and era where nobody likes to discuss death in case it encourages her to visit,

It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.

Los violentos placeres que se derivan de una relación sadomasoquista han sido ampliamente documentados por los expertos.

I don't know why people get so hot and bothered about sex. It's only the insertion of a penis into a nearby vagina.

Sex with the gorilla went on a bit, but once he'd stumbled over my clitoris we both had good times.

As for unmarried women, I have no idea where they are buried. For a very long time, in Korea, no one talked about them.)

I think falling in love with an older woman is not abnormal. It happens a lot in our society, but it's just that it is not accepted with open arms.

What we're trying to do is take these words and soften them. I'm an African-American comic. I use the b-word in my act.

Excluding certain problems from the political debate by making it a crime to discuss them won't lead to the disappearance of these concerns, let alone contribute to a solution.

Being 'edgy' is not just cursing. There are some things socially that are just not acceptable to make fun of. Anything with race, they really won't let you do on TV unless it's completely soft.

I mean, there are things that I've experienced that I don't joke about because I'm just like, 'People don't really think it's funny that I had an eating disorder for a long time.' There are some things that just like really bum people out.

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

What is love, Mikayel? Isn't it the most irrational of all human emotions? And the one most forbidden?