Quotes About Taboo

There's things in this world better let alone. Things sealed away and not meant to be looked upon. Lines better not crossed, and when you do cross em you got to take what comes.

We enjoy the night, the darkness, where we can do things that aren't acceptable in the light. Night is when we slake our thirst.

We enjoy the night, the darkness, where we can do things that aren't acceptable in the light. Night is when we slate our thirst.

It was dirty and grown-up and transgressive and thrilling in its perverse little way, all the things I couldn't help being attracted to, being as I'm nothing myself if not perverse.

Your mother's cunt has a peculiar tubular shape!' he yelled. 'Nonetheless, I tolerate its effluvium and enthusiastically lick its inner folds whenever she demands!

If Sade's books are the kind which the French inelegantly describe as needing to be read with one hand, it is a sensible precaution to hold a sick-bowl in the other.

Asians love schoolgirls in uniforms. They say the Japanese can buy used schoolgirl panties from vending machines. And from shops hidden away in apartment buildings. Burusera shops, they call them. The smell is very important; it adds value to the commodity. I wonder how Marx would have dealt with that?

It's got the right combination of content, what Mackley calls the "Three S's": sex, stupidity, and schadenfreude.

Horror stories, whether about vampires, ghouls, or flesh-eating zombies, always seem to reflect some aspect of the tellers' own social lives, some terrifying potential, in the way they are accustomed to interact with each other, that they do not wish to acknowledge or confront, but also cannot help but talk about.

It took a lot of nerve, De Vecchi added—broaching a taboo topic—for the archbishop to accuse the Fascists of being savages when at the same time the Vatican expected the government to keep silent about widespread cases of priestly immorality. One of these days, the ambassador warned, the pope would go too far. He would not

In October, 1819—six months before the first Christian missionaries arrived on the islands—Liholiho, under the inspiration of Kaahumanu, one of the widows of his father, suddenly, and in the presence of a large concourse of horrified natives, broke the most sacred of the tabus of his religion by partaking of food from vessels from which women were feasting, and the same day decreed the destruction of every temple and idol in the kingdom.

It would be nice if people said, God bless you not just when you sneezed but also when you farted.

Let God be some tribal female who is known but forbidden.

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.

Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.

If God made Adam and Eve, they had children... wait a minute... that means someone banged their sister!

Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.

Forbidden things - my God, I'm drawn to them like a moth to a flame.

There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste

I'm the guy with the good attitude towards menstruation.

Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.

I feel like weed is still taboo enough to be cool but not taboo enough that you have to totally hide it, which is like a pretty good place for an entity to be at.

My crazy parents and those crazy Catholic nuns didn't do a good job of forcing me to keep the Ten Commandments, but they kept me forever fixated on the very idea of a taboo.