#taboos

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality. ↗

— Diego Rivera

#breaks #female #her #paintings #sexuality

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

#certain #cover #culture #description #each

There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#book #every #handled #however #important

This (...) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academic institutions they represent are bastions of a free exchange of ideas. They are -but only of those ideas that don't 'rock the boat', that refrain from challenging hallowed taboos. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#medical-ethics #medicide #medicine #science #taboos

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

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

Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us. ↗

— Robert Byron

#nationalism #reason #taboos #business

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good ↗

— Ezra Pound

#courage #criticism #intellectuals #opinion #taboos