“ The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever dangerous. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
- 2.3K
“ To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
- 2.2K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Monty Python was well-known for pushing and breaking comedy taboos and raising a stir… .we were also the first show to do cannibalism as a schtick. ”
- Graham Chapman- Copy
- 751
“ Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths. ”
- Tryon Edwards- Copy
- 3.9K
“ We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished. ”
- Ulysses S. Grant- Copy
- 2.5K
“ It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
- 294
“ Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 704
“ Today a taboo has been broken. We are the moderates. Bush and Blair are the extremists. The danger for all of us is not in Baghdad but in Washington. ”
- John Pilger- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The taboo for straight actors playing gay is gone… My mother was squirming a bit in the theater because she comes from a different generation. ”
- Dean Cain- Copy
- 1.3K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent. ”
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau- Copy
- 1.8K
“ There was the movement on the West Coast and there was just a general consciousness that was coming about with all young people, unifying them- being against the war, being for the legalization of pot and the liberating of sexual taboos and restrictions and ignorant points of view that we learned growing up and learned to hate… ”
- Michael Davis- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness — pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself… ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
- 2.4K
“ History warns us... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ”
- Thomas Henry Huxley- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever dangerous. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
- 3.5K
“ To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
- 490
“ Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
- 230
“ 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- Copy
- 2K
“ Monty Python was well-known for pushing and breaking comedy taboos and raising a stir… .we were also the first show to do cannibalism as a schtick. ”
- Graham Chapman- Copy
- 983
“ Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths. ”
- Tryon Edwards- Copy
- 2.7K
“ We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished. ”
- Ulysses S. Grant- Copy
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