Ilka Chase Quotes

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy

Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles; but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels.

But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance.

The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.

I can remember in my adolescence feeling that many of the things that were hurtful and hypocritical in society were things related to sex. They included the kind of censorship laws that existed in the movies and books when I was young.

Every actor pretends that they hate sex scenes, and the truth is that they all love them, and they're lying.

Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.

Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.

By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?

George Clooney says he's had sex with too many women to ever run for office. He was immediately made Prime Minister of Italy.

Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.

I've never really thought in terms of taboos. I think that books can really help parents and kids talk together about difficult subjects. I've always felt that way.

Everyone went out and bought Sex, it was sold out in two seconds. And then everybody slagged me off. That, to me is a statement of the hypocrisy of the world that we live in. The fact that everybody is so interested in sex but won't admit it.

Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?

Gossip, public, private, social - to fight against it either by word or pen seems, after all, like fighting with shadows. Everybody laughs at it, protests against it, blames and despises it; yet everybody does it, or at least encourages others in it: quite innocently, unconsciously, in such a small, harmless fashion - yet we do it. We must talk about something, and it is not all of us who can find a rational topic of conversation, or discuss it when found.

Whenever I see a taboo, I just think that's something we need to drag screaming out into the light and discuss. Because taboos are where our fears live, and taboos are the things that keep us tiny. Particularly for women.

Depictions or expressions of sex, violence, crime are all permitted virtually without limit; but religion, it seems, never.No wonder many in America seem to believe that the court has become one more inclined to protect pornography than to protect religious expression.

If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.

Society's the mother of convention.

People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.

The president is on national TV apologizing for getting oral sex. Why didn't he just stick with his lie? You got to stick with your lie. If you lie, you have to believe that lie whole-heartedly. It has to become the truth for you. But this man, the most powerful man in the world, is on national TV apologizing for receiving oral sex. He's an idiot. There are men sitting in here right now who would gladly accept oral sex on national TV.

In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.

In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.