Quotes About Taboo

Could a father not marry his son?

Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

I became addicted to the guilt. The strange thrill of doing something so morbid, so off-color, and so completely wrong.

We couldn't arrest him if he was shooting strangers with one hand while jerking off into the American flag with the other.

With us, love is just as punishable as murder or robbery…

My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.

When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.

We might recall, however, that one of the characteristics of a safely operating taboo is that it remains invisible, beneath discussion, taken for granted.

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

Adults want to talk about death way less than people my age do. Death is the Santa Claus of the adult world. Except Santa Claus in reverse. The guy who takes all the presents away. Big bag over the shoulder, climbing up the chimney carrying everything in a person's life, and taking off, eight-reindeered, from the roof.

By focusing on the male violence against women, coming to the surface in rape, and by trying to make this a public issue, feminists have unwittingly touched one of the taboos of civilised society, namely that this is a 'peaceful society'. … The very fact that rape has now become a public issue had helped to tear the veil from the facade of so-called civilised society and has laid bare its hidden, brutal, violent foundations.

Nudity, I find, rapidly becomes boring when it is not treated as scandalous.

If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

Every fight is a food fight when youre a cannibal.

If there was absolute freedom, people would run over babies and charge admission.

The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.

Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

If you had to eat another human to survive, do you think they'd taste like their ethnic background?

Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.

I'd rather laugh in bed than do it. If I went to a lady of the night, I'd probably pay her to tell me jokes. Would that be perverted?

Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that cannibalism, wife-swapping and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant

What's the difference between Justin Bieber and an abortion? I'd pay to see an abortion.