Taboo Quotes

Taboo Quote of the day

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

The classic comedian says there's nothing that's taboo; if you laugh at one thing you've got to laugh at everything, that comedy is taking people to dark areas and showing them the light.

To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.

Breastfeeding should not be taboo - and bottle feeding should not be judged - it's ALL fun for the whole family.

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

Every time I write these words they become a taboo, Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true, Living my life in the margin, and that metaphor was proof.

There is no policy too sensitive to question, and no subject so taboo that you cannot even mention it.

I know I will be breaking a taboo. But I'm sure that it will provoke a new discussion. It's time things change. I feel 30 and want to look that way again.

The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.

We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the understanding that there's a class war going on.

I like talking about things that are taboo, because it makes them not taboo anymore.

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place

I try to destroy taboo in fashion-which is something I learned as a kid. I come from the street, and you have to be a survivor.

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] - things that you probably shouldn't like.

Jihad amongst the Muslims today has become like a taboo subject that is discussed over coffee. The one who writes and speaks about Jihad has not even spent a minute in the battlefield.

It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by a taboo.

No matter how much people in fashion think we're so cool and avant-garde, for most fashion people, creativity is quite taboo.

Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).

It's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers].

The key to breaking the Taliban taboo against women and the cultural brainwashing that the Taliban imposed upon many Afghans is to get women back into the workforce.

Race is still somewhat of a taboo in comedy. But if you're a minority, then you can make fun of your own minority. And that's a nice service that many of them provide.

[My book is] a collection of letters and essays about what it takes to be a young woman today. Mostly the taboo things that girls don't want to talk about, but once we do we realize we're not alone.

I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

I don't think of those things [from farting, to male on male affection, to crossdressing] as being taboo, I suppose, so it didn't strike me as, "Oh, I'm breaking boundaries and stuff..."

Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and whats a taboo and whats not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.

There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems to have been broken with impunity.

Every story, each poem that a person shares, each voice that speaks against menstrual taboo, inspires me.

All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.

The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea.

It is especially taboo for a wine writer to admit that he or she likes the buzz. But wine is a full sensory experience. It's not just tasting notes.

There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.

I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.

I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

I'm in love with my second cousin.

Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them - Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.

All the things that are taboo are the things that are not normal, and all the things that are not normal are the things that are exclusively about physically being a woman.

Age is not a taboo in the fashion industry. One should learn what to wear to look good at any age.

Elvis, stop dat! You know it is taboo to whistle at night. You will attract a spirit.

I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

Anytime something becomes widely condemned and taboo, it will be eroticized.

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.

I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.

Feminism is still one of those taboo words, so hardly anybody talks about it. People usually go gender-neutral and say the book and film [Room] are about "the triumph of the human spirit.

But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with.

It's really important to have a healthy sexuality and to be open about it. It's not a taboo. It's normal.

There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed.