#taboo

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. ↗

— Judith Lewis Herman

#post-traumatic-stress #psychotherapy #taboo #trauma #truth

I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#culture #evolving #exciting #exciting time #homosexuality

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure. ↗

— Michael Malone

#america #failure #greatest #i #i think

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

#almost #any #comes #conclusion #dangerous

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#also #attack #both #breaking #comprises

Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease. ↗

— Richard Serra

#content #deciding #disease #equates #got

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#existence #get #hidden #hypocrisy #i

But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with. ↗

— Ethan Suplee

#friends #i #kind #least #like

I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States. ↗

— Kyle MacLachlan

#done #graham #i #make #matter

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place? ↗

— Kate Millett

#keeping #place #privacy #taboos #their