Quotes About Taboo

pero ese tema era tabú en aquellos tiempos de hipocresía colectiva.

Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.

Zombies, mummies - they're disgusting and gross. You don't want to make out with a mummy. At least, I don't.

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Obscenity is whatever gives a judge an erection.

I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.

The best contraceptive for old people is nudity.

What I learned is that there are indeed some stories that are too true to tell, too revealing for the general population to metabolize. And too challenging to your reporter colleagues, whose turf or toes you might have tread upon.

You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.

It turns out, from what I hear, that roasted fruit bats are delicious.

TV shows about TV were taboo for a while.

Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult.

I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.

I think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose the people you're close to.

The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.

Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.

All the best times in music were rebellious. I mean, even like Elvis, people didn't want their daughters paying attention to him. He was considered too sexual!

Glen Rice is a wonderful man. He's a wonderful guy, but you want her to be with somebody like [Dennis] Rodman getting up in there. Pushing her guts up into the back of her head

There are probably a couple of things I'd never write about until everyone I know is dead. And then there's other stuff which nobody would want to read a book about anyway.

Political correctness is a war on noticing.

Unless you've lived a long time in Germany, you'll be surprised to learn that descendants of the Wehrmacht made the same claims as the descendants of the Confederate Army. Not only in the dark, shell-shocked days that followed the unconditional surrender outside Berlin in 1945; such remarks continued to be made in public through the end of the twentieth century, when the Wehrmacht Exhibit broke West Germany's final taboo.

The first thing the attendees saw when they walked in was a poster with the question "What are our mokitas?"—a Papua New Guinea word for that which everyone knows and no one will speak of: the elephant in the room.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.