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 for himself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Political

  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... 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 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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• 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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• 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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• He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear.

  David Bowie

  Hair, Underwear, Nutrition

  Song: The Jean Genie, Album: Aladdin Sane, 1973

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• Got 27 children I never see.

  Tom Waits

  Children, Taboo

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• 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

  Noses, Ears, Way

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• I can take about an hour on the tower of power, as long as I gets a little golden shower.

  Frank Zappa

  Long, Towers, Littles

  Song: Bobby Brown Goes Down, Album: Sheik Yerbouti

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• I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again.

  George Jones

  Home, Drunk, Wheels

  Song: If drinkin' don't kill me, Album: I Am What I Am

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• I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

  Bryan Adams

  Underwear, Taboo, Swear

  Song: (I Wanna Be) Your Underwear, Album: 18 Til I Die, 1996

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• I use my dress to wipe up my drink, I care less and less what people think.

  Ani DiFranco

  Thinking, People, Dresses

  Song: Dilate Complete Album, Album: Dilate

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• Gold will never free your father, the price, my dear, is you instead.

  Bob Dylan

  Father, Gold, Dear

  Song: Seven Curses

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• Give me the enchilada with the pickle sauce shoved up between the donkey's ass until he can't come anymore.

  Frank Zappa

  Giving, Sauce, Enchiladas

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• 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

  Teaching, Islamic, Race

  Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan. Directorate of Films & Publications (2008). “Speeches and Statements: Oct. 1993-Nov. 1996”

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• Brother says he's telling about you playing Doctor with that girl.

  Stevie Wonder

  Girl, Brother, Doctors

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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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• Can't wait to show my girls he sucked the piss out of my pussy.

  Lil' Kim

  Girl, Waiting, Pussy

  Song: "Suck My Dick" By Lil Kim

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• Dad's going steady with a pig in the barn.

  Mojo Nixon

  Dad, Pigs, Barns

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• Getting paid for being laid, guess that's the name of the game.

  Elton John

  Games, Names, Paid

  Song: Sweet Painted Lady Elton John Bernie Taupin, Album: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, 1973

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• 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

  Night, Hot, Sides

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• 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

  Boys, Night, Evil

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• 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

  Boys, New Orleans, House

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