Quotes About Taboo

a perverse and unruly superstition

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Proverbs 9:17]

I love to do the things the censors won't pass.

English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.

The exhibitionist loves to flirt with shame

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up

I doubt if there is one married person on earth who can be objective about divorce. It is always a threat, admittedly or not, and such a dire threat that it is almost a dirty word.

Taboo comes from a Polynesian word that means "sacred or holy" rather than simply "prohibited.

If you can trigger the Lazarus reflex in a dead person, why not the orgasm reflex?

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

It has been argued that food and eating have replaced sex as our foremost cultural taboo.7 To some extent I agree with this but would point out that the taboo is not against food, or sex, or flesh, but against a loss of control.

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The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

one story everyone can safely cover is how much we hate each other. There's no institutional or commercial taboo that story violates.

the two most taboo lines in all media in America are I don't know and I don't care.

In the Orwellian dystopia the original sin was thoughtcrime, but in our new corporate dystopia the secret inner crime is need, particularly financial need. People in America hide financial need like they hide sexual perversions.

You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

Sometimes the things we want to say the most are the things that should never be said.

Don't use the buckle," she told him with a laugh, her eyes closed, head bent. "I haven't beaten a woman with my belt before, Simone. That doesn't mean I don't have any clue about how to do it.

Then again maybe there's something that I've been doing in the privacy of my own bedroom my whole life that I think is perfectly normal but is actually illegal in thirty-two states.

The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation... but I hear that it's coming quickly.

Farts are a repressed minority. The mouth gets to say all kinds of things, but the other place is supposed to keep quiet. But maybe our lower colons have something interesting to say. Maybe we should listen to them. Farts are human, more human than a lot of people I know. I think we should bring them out of the water closet and into the parlor, and that's what I did in Blazing Saddles.

He nods. "My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on.