Social Taboos Quotes

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

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Shy, Morality, Virtue

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• 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.

  Freda Adler

  Culture, Morality, Behavior

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• The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Insane

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.145, Vintage

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• The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Political

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.145, Vintage

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• Suffering should not define you as a woman! And just because you’re a man it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t affect you! HELP HER to remove the taboos and the loneliness surrounding this disease; be understanding, show empathy, and don’t accuse her of being sensitive, delicate, or overly dramatic – this is a big opportunity for you guys to show that you care and to be a real man!

  Susan Sarandon

  Real, Loneliness, Mean

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• 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

  Justice, Diversity, Genius

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• 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

  Fashion, Sex, Men

  René König (1973). “A la Mode: On the Social Psychology of Fashion”

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• 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

  Real, Believe, Inspiration

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• 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

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm the daughter of a sister whose the mother of a brother who's the brother of another.

  Queen Latifah

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

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• If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope.

  Eminem

  Animal, Men, Reason

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• 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

  Laughing, Looks, Legs

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• 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

  Shoes, Tennis, Likes

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• There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.

  Bob Seger

  Long, Dancer, Lovely

  Song: Mainstreet, Album: Night Moves, 1976

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• She gets a hundred for her body and a nickel for her soul.

  Alice Cooper

  Soul, Body, Hundred

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• Rudolf Valentino looks very much alive and he looks up ladies dresses as they sadly pass him by.

  Ray Davies

  Dresses, Looks, Alive

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• Rough boys I wanna bite and kiss you.

  Pete Townshend

  Kissing, Boys, Rough

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• 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

  Sight, Mules, Seven

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• Maybe I'll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.

  Al Yankovic

  Color, Buttons, Belly

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• Libido, fascination, too much oral defecation. White trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy.

  Marilyn Manson

  Cake, White, Fascination

  Song: Everlasting Cocksucker

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• 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

  Husband, Ideas, Secret

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone who willfully indulges in the selfish pursuit of more and more material possessions while ignoring the Bible on caring for the poor? The difference is that one involves a social taboo in the church and the other involves the social norm in the church.

  David Platt

  Selfish, Caring, Indulge In

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• We put boogers on our fingers, then shake your hand.

  Biz Markie

  Hands, Boogers, Fingers

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• We had a great time on the bench talking about crime, mother-stabbin', father raping, all kinds of groovy things.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Mother, Father, Talking

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• 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

  Girl, Morning, Two

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