Social Taboos Quotes

Can't wait to show my girls he sucked the piss out of my pussy.

Americans, too many of them, take themselves too seriously. You're going to get rapped - by the viewers, by the sponsors and by the network brass - if you joke about doctors, lawyers, dentists, scientists, bus drivers, I don't care who. You can't make a joke about Catholics, Negroes, Jews, Italians, politicians, dogs or cats. In fact, politicians, dogs and cats are the most sacred institutions in America.

… a country's laws are written upon paper, and that its customs are engraved upon brass. One may play with the one, but not with the other. It is less risky for a stranger to dance upon our Constitution in the public square than to affront one of our solidified customs. The one is merely eminently respectable, the other is sacred.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

Gold will never free your father, the price, my dear, is you instead.

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

Any kind of grieving that is not allowed causes a break. In our culture, grieving in public is not encouraged, but in other cultures, it is done publicly. Some cultures have walls where people can cry. We don't have that. We have theatre where there's always the chance for you to face things within yourself.

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

I have a very European feel about nudity.

I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again.

I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television.

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it?

At the drop of a hat, people have begun to take offence. You can't write, paint, make films without worrying about some faction or other whose 'sentiments' will be hurt!

Shaking hands with the strangers of opposite sex is forbidden

The heck with political correctness. I've never believed in it.

There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.

It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.

Rough boys I wanna bite and kiss you.

I'm very English, and we don't talk about emotions publicly.

Line dancing is as sinful as any other type of dancing, with its sexual gestures and touching. It is an incitement to lust.

Neither of my parents are involved in politics or anything like that, but my dad is political, certainly, and we would have always talked about politics and religion and money, and all those things that you're not supposed to talk about at the dinner table, we did.

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.