Taboo Quotations

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

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

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.

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place

In villages across the developing world, governments have provided reasonable enough latrines that have again and again been turned into storage spaces or simply abandoned. In India alone, millions of government-funded latrines have become goat-sheds. Some had been built near kitchens, a taboo in Indian households.

When Bound was released, Boys don't Cry wasn't out yet. Therefore it was very taboo to play a lesbian. I loved the part, because girls never get to play the typical guy parts.

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

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

I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that dark place.

I was always intrigued by the idea of bringing things together that are considered taboo or risque and bringing them together with something of high elegance and sophistication.

Shortly after Sisi was elected, his administration announced cuts of 'subsidies' on natural gas and energy consumption and lowered those for bread and other goods. Such action was taboo during the Mubarak and Sadat presidencies for over half a century, but Sisi was able to convince Egyptians he was taking necessary action.

Much more relevant is current affairs, social and political news. You don't necessarily have to touch taboo areas.

Many are unaware of the emotional load associated with money. Everybody has money secrets because people believe it's taboo to talk about money.

He is opening the debate on entitlements. I think he wants to break the taboo on Medicare.

He was someone who created a lot of controversy about recent German history when it was taboo to do so.

Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.

Male nudity, full-frontal nudity, has always been considered a lot more taboo than female nudity. As far back as I can remember, there's been a double standard between men and women. I think it's time that men get equal time in terms of nudity.

I think that there would be a sufficient appreciation of the magnitude of these devices that the taboo against using them would be present even if they had not been used in Japan.

I think part of that is the taboo is being broken. To some extent it's no longer the kiss of death to admit to a security breach.

We exist in this weirdly schizo culture, where sex is everywhere in the media, and yet, at the same time, you don't sit down and have a conversation about what you did in bed last night with your friends. Despite the ubiquity of sex, it's still a taboo when it comes to day-to-day conversation.

When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

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.

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

There are characters in it that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas,

The taboo is gone; the trend has been endorsed culturally.

The writers needed to, as part of their jobs, take on taboo subject matter.

Companies are starving for people with technology skills. I think people are kind of shocked. It's certainly almost taboo in society. Parents tell their kids the last thing they should do is skip college for the big money.

They've gone to the trouble to try to educate people that there is a cultural taboo there,

There's no taboo about not really getting married on your wedding day anymore.

There is probably no better thing that has happened in the state of Florida than Bright Futures and the prepaid program. Unfortunately, it needs to evolve. This cannot be a taboo issue, it is something we need to talk about.

I never dreamed of revealing my weight ever. It's kind of a taboo subject for women.

In the United States, there's a strong taboo against racism; in England it's only happened in the past 15 years. In Spain and Eastern Europe, there is none of this revulsion among most people. There are few people of color, so a black player on the field is a new thing. In that sense, soccer is seen by racists as the vanguard of the world outside sweeping into town.

Taboo has a lot of hidden meanings. We're going to leave that up to your imagination.

The Internet, especially, can be a liberating force. Topics once politically taboo can become freely discussed, and people can communicate anonymously. We must ensure it does not become a tool of repression.

Suicide is still an unexplored social taboo in our society today.

I have recently heard that word uttered in a second-grade class and in a Presbyterian church - by the teacher and preacher, respectively, ... 'Sucks,' 'bites' and words like that are currently being absorbed into the vernacular. Thus, their taboo origins are being dissolved.

I didn't know what I saw -- swamp gas, space ship, sundog, weather balloon. What impressed me was my parents' fear of reporting the sighting. I realized that even in our allegedly rational age many things remain unspeakable -- damned, blasphemous. George Carlin can't do his comedy on networks because the comedy depends on taboo words. We remain governed by taboo to an astounding extent.

At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.

This place was a taboo for us for the past 38 years, and now we are standing here.

It's a taboo that comes back over and over, to suggest that women can feel divided - that you can love your child and want to do everything for it, and at the same time want to put it away from you and reclaim something of yourself.

It was taboo to strike out a lot. Now there's so much emphasis on the home run, guys can make good money even if they swing and miss a lot.

They're back on the release schedule. Whether they're back in terms of box office clout, we'll see over the next couple of weeks. But this group of titles certainly looks like the kind of films that can break down the barrier, the taboo that R-rated movies can't be blockbusters anymore.

Got 27 children I never see.

There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.

I never consciously set out to talk about taboos or anything like that.

Infinitely more taboos, on television.

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

Nothing is taboo if you have an angle on it.

To look without fear is a good subversive tool, undermining taboos.

I'm in love with my second cousin.

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