taboo

Fight for change? Thirst for difference?Start talking what men avoid talking about.

We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough.

I felt like an animal, and animals don__ know sin, do they?

There is no definitive answer as to why cannibalism provides us with such stimulation, although what is clear, and what remains extremely disturbing for me, is our increasing desensitization to violence and gore - a trait that does not bode well for the future.

Many of us have this mind-set which considers self-promotion a taboo.

That night he wrote in his diary, "Challenge a remaining taboo." It was that simple. He had always wanted to understand genius, and now he had the formula. Freud, living in an age that prized its own seeming rationality, had found one of the remaining taboos and dared to think beyond it: he discovered infant sexuality and the unconscious, among other things. Galileo had gone beyond the taboo "Thou shalt not question Aristotle." Every great discovery had been the breaking of a taboo.

When people have tried everything and have discovered that nothing works, they will tend to revert to what they know best__hich will often be the tribe, the totem, or the taboo.

Mental health is one of the last great taboos.

He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs."One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is all right".

I have also figured out that for many people death is a difficult subject, not at all as simple as it is for me.

He says, "I would walk around the township and I could point them out, which girls had been abused. You could see it in them. There's a luminosity to incest. The taboo is so strong and the damage so great. Luminosity--do you understand? It travels across oceans and down generations. They shine with it.

I refuse to believe all men are pigs and women competing whores.-ANASTASIA

I refuse to believe that all men are pigs and women competing whores.

She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time.

But did he know that I'd already forgiven him for having rejected me?

You do bad things to me, Carrie,_ he grinned, __ery bad things.

She had assumed they would see each other every day but she hadn__ really thought about the implications of having an affair with a married man. It wasn__ going to be a normal relationship.

Stigma's power lies in silence. The silence that persists when discussion and action should be taking place. The silence one imposes on another for speaking up on a taboo subject, branding them with a label until they are rendered mute or preferably unheard.