Social Taboo Quotes

If I were racist, I wouldn't be so crazy as to declare it on television.

Eating people is wrong

He's a politician. That's a notch below child molester.

My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.

'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.

Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.

Suicide's a criminal offense — In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.

It is a public scandal that gives offence, and it is no sin to sin in secret.

Just take Germany and the suffering of Jews during and after the Second World War. It would be legal to ridicule and to laugh at this suffering, but since it was such a trauma on the European conscience, no one is going to do it. It is an open scar, an open wound, an open reality.

It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman.

We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism.

What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo.

I find infidelity interesting because it's so revelatory about people. It's this really silent thing. Everyone acknowledges it as a general practice, but nobody likes to go beyond that, to get down to the nitty-gritty.

When you bump into your own mom at an orgy, it's hard not to get her to read into certain things.

If you go to a party populated by the NPR crowd and you start talking about JonBenet Ramsey, people will look at you as if you had forgotten your pants.

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!

I'm just an innocent guy with a dirty mouth, I guess.

On two subjects the overwhelming majority of people regarded their own opinions as Absolute Truth, and sincerely believed that anyone who disagreed with them was immoral, outrageous, sinful, sacrilegious, offensive, intolerable, stupid, illogical, treasonable, actionable, against the public interest, ridiculous, and obscene. The two subjects were (of course) sex and religion.

My Grandmother wouldn't even speak the word Democrat if there were children in the room, she'd say Bastards instead.

What I'm finding is there's an awful lot about adoption and relinquishment and the complicated nature of family that we, as human beings, haven't been able to have a real discussion about yet without a lot of censorship.

Admitting that Katie had taken too much blood was on par with saying an adult human had pooped their pants or eaten their own boogers!

...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of the races draws down upon those who suggest it, because nobody pretends to deny that, throughout the South, a large proportion of the population is the offspring of white men and colored women.