Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy — Gunnar Myrdal
The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo. — Aldrich Ames
What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to get around them that is interesting. — Helmut Newton
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial. — Erma Bombeck
If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette. — Judith Martin
Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer. — Thomas More
The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life. — Pier Paolo Pasolini
Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed. — Plato
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. — Seneca The Elder
Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is 'open-minded' and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless taboos of which people are sometimes not even aware. — Julius Evola
Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading. — Frederick Lenz
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become. — Mark Twain
There is no policy too sensitive to question, and no subject so taboo that you cannot even mention it. — Lee Hsien Loong
Modern society will shame you for existing. — Naval Ravikant
Short Social Taboos Quotes
In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact. — Marlene Dietrich
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. — M. F. K. Fisher
I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters. — Isaac Barrow
I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish. — Queen Elizabeth II
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion. — Guy de Maupassant
Do not speak of evil for it creates curiosityin the hearts of the young. — American Indian Proverbs
Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality — Iris Marion Young
Social Taboos Image Quotes
Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
Social Norms Quotes
People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that. — Max Cannon
People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time. — Mark Zuckerberg
Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms. — Thomas More
Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need a public debate about the moral limits of markets. — Michael Sandel
If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a common set of ethical norms....such a society will be better able to innovate...since the high degree of trust will permit a wide variety of social relationships to emerge. — Francis Fukuyama
At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups. — Sean Parker
Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms. — Jackson Katz
in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation. — Barbara Ehrenreich
According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or liberation to act on our desires-it is, rather, liberation from slavery to those desires, from slavery to self. — Robert P. George
We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly. — Jane Goodall
In distinguishing between Islamic teachings and social taboos, we must remember that Islam forbids injustice; Injustice against people, against nations, against women. It shuns race, color, and gender as a basis of distinction amongst fellowmen. It enshrines piety as the sole criteria for judging humankind. — Benazir Bhutto
Can't wait to show my girls he sucked the piss out of my pussy. — Lil' Kim
I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again. — George Jones
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself. — H. L. Mencken
Libido, fascination, too much oral defecation. White trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy. — Marilyn Manson
We put boogers on our fingers, then shake your hand. — Biz Markie
It's two o'clock in the morning, they're not going to get any nooky anyway, so this one guy and the guy with the t-shirt guy started sniffing the girls panties. — Frank Zappa
I can take about an hour on the tower of power, as long as I gets a little golden shower. — Frank Zappa
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. — Rene Konig
Give me the enchilada with the pickle sauce shoved up between the donkey's ass until he can't come anymore. — Frank Zappa
I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time. — John Naisbitt
Rudolf Valentino looks very much alive and he looks up ladies dresses as they sadly pass him by. — Ray Davies
Maybe I'll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint. — Al Yankovic
If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope. — Eminem
I swear, I wanna be your underwear. — Bryan Adams
Our fears and taboos are largely social conditions imposed upon us by the ruling powers in order to keep us opressed. They manipulate us with our fears. Now let us be fearless. — Kathy Change
We had a great time on the bench talking about crime, mother-stabbin', father raping, all kinds of groovy things. — Arlo Guthrie
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. — Helen Reddy
There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff. — Bob Seger
There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one. — Bob Dylan
I use my dress to wipe up my drink, I care less and less what people think. — Ani Difranco
Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims about your attitudes to or achievements in the carnal and financial arenas can be disputed only by your lover and your financial advisers, whereas by making statements about your taste you expose body and soul to terrible scrutiny. Taste is a merciless betrayer of social and cultural attitudes. Thus, while anybody will tell you as much (and perhaps more than) you want to know about their triumphs in bed and at the bank, it is taste that gets people's nerves tingling. — Stephen Bayley
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. — Freda Adler
Because in traditional Hindu culture menstruation is associated with a variety of social taboos, prolonged menstrual bleeding produced conflicts within families. The whole idea of fertility regulation was still extremely new in this setting and many husbands and other family members were angry when they found out that women had decided on their own to use the method and had gone to the clinic in secret. — Ruth Simmons
Nobody had counseled women to expect the changes in bleeding patterns which are typically associated with IUD use, and they received no support from the health clinics with their problems. Because in traditional Hindu culture menstruation is associated with a variety of social taboos, prolonged menstrual bleeding produced conflicts within families. — Ruth Simmons
When the excessively shy force themselves to be forward, they are frequently surprisingly unsubtle and overdirect and even rude: they have entered an extreme region beyond their normal personality, an area of social crime where gradations don't count; unavailable to them are the instincts and taboos that booming extroverts, who know the territory of self-advancement far better, can rely on. — Nicholson Baker
I like big escapist films. It's odd because the type of comedian I am and the things I do when I'm writing and directing myself usually deal with the darker side of the human psyche and excruciating social faux pas. I often deal in taboos and the subjects I do as a stand-up are quite challenging. But my film roles have been much more fun and escapist. — Ricky Gervais
People say 'I love Artists', but what they really know about Artists? They've ever thought about sharing the real madness with us? I believe those extreme passions/emotions in me separated from the real world is the sauce to pull out the inspirations out of me that touch the core of people's hearts, which is usually wandering about deep inside of you unconsciously covered with the social taboo called 'common sense'. — Hiroko Sakai
They call him the Streak, he likes to turn the other cheek. He's always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes. — Ray Stevens
Stopping at her house is a neighbor boy with evil on his mind, cause he's been peeking in Angie's room at night through her window blind. — Helen Reddy
She started drinkin' we weren't thinkin' too straight, she was doing eighty slammed on the brakes. Got so hot we had to pull to the side, did some shakin' 'til the middle of the night. — Eddie Money
She gets a hundred for her body and a nickel for her soul. — Alice Cooper
Rough boys I wanna bite and kiss you. — Pete Townshend
Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm the daughter of a sister whose the mother of a brother who's the brother of another. — Queen Latifah
I want to sit with my legs wide open and laugh so loud that the whole damn restaurant turns and looks at me. — Paula Cole
How come I can pick my ears, but not my nose? Who made up that rule anyway? How can you say that's the way it is, that's just the way it goes, why don't you decide fore yourself what you can do? — Ani Difranco
He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear. — David Bowie
Got 27 children I never see. — Tom Waits
Gold will never free your father, the price, my dear, is you instead. — Bob Dylan
Getting paid for being laid, guess that's the name of the game. — Elton John
Dad's going steady with a pig in the barn. — Mojo Nixon
Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores. — Bob Dylan
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