Quotes about Taboo

You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.

Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties.

Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.

The very mention of crucifixion was taboo in polite Roman circles, since it was the lowest form of capital punishment, reserved for slaves and rebels. As for the Jews, the very idea of a crucified Messiah was scandalous. A crucified Messiah was a horrible parody of the kingdom-dreams that many were cherishing. It immediately implied that Israel's national hope was being radically redrawn downward.

You can judge a culture by what it talks about and what it refuses to talk about, and talk of "spiritual warfare" would be a useful litmus test today.

If one touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.”

If anyone eats blood, that person must be cut off from his people.’”

You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.

All flying insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you.

“Say to the Israelites, ‘When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean.