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Isn’t privacy about keeping taboos in their place (Taboos Quotes)
I never consciously set out to talk about taboos or anything like that (Taboos Quotes)
Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy (Taboos Quotes)
Infinitely more taboos, on television (Taboos Quotes)
I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure (Taboos Quotes)
Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power! (Taboos Quotes)
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 (Taboos Quotes)
The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion (Taboos Quotes)
The trickster’s function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom (Taboos Quotes)
Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos which we tamper with at our peril (Taboos Quotes)
Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even spiritual experience, moderates merely ask that we relax our standard of adherence to ancient superstitions and taboos, while otherwise maintaining a belief system that was passed down to us from men and women whose lives were simply ravaged by their basic ignorance about the world (Taboos Quotes)
The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes (Taboos Quotes)
Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today (Taboos Quotes)
American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one’s right to be different and often to break taboos. (Taboos Quotes)
The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga. (Taboos Quotes)
The trickster’s function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom. (Taboos Quotes)
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. (Taboos Quotes)
We’ve surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap (Taboos Quotes)
Eating is aggressive by nature, and the implements required for it could quickly become weapons; table manners are, most basically, a system of taboos designed to ensure that violence remains out of the question (Taboos Quotes)
Good horror fiction deals with taboos. It must always go to the limits of what is acceptable (Taboos Quotes)
There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one’s eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion (Taboos Quotes)
Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of political climates or coercions, in spite of careers being won or lost, in spite of the fear of being criticized, outcast, or disliked. I believe freedom begins with naming things. Humanity is preserved by it (Taboos Quotes)
The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes (Taboos Quotes)
Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can’t. Diplomacy won’t. It has to be people like us (Taboos Quotes)
Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the same ambivalent mixture of irresistible urges and inevitable taboos (Taboos Quotes)
The most exciting thing about women’s liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been wasted because of taboos (Taboos Quotes)
She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn’t have time (Taboos Quotes)
There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn’t be any taboos in bed (Taboos Quotes)
Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman’s body and of female sexuality (Taboos Quotes)
The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence (Taboos Quotes)
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