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When the announcement was made to defund the police … that just opened the doors to a level of mayhem where taboos were erased, standards were no longer acknowledged because only the cops could be wrong – a citizen couldn’t be wrong, and so, the naivete of the leadership to not understand how the lawless community would exploit their announcement was maddening. – Don Samuels	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There is always something taboo, something repressed, un-admitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one’s eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion. – Alan Watts	added by Normando 3 years ago
We want to break the taboos, in the rest of the world, this is normal now. – Yanahara Mauri	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
In our African culture there are taboos ... we say 'this child is cursed', we will say there is witchcraft, that this child is irrecoverable, when you live ... without knowing if you are he or she, when you have to constantly justify who you are, its not easy. – Gabonese Dorothee Adjakidjie	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Too often, the lines of freedom of speech are very deliberately being tested, and taboos are carelessly being breached and used as a political instrument, it's not banter, rather it's playing with fire. Because whoever sows violence with words, risks reaping violence. – Angela Merkel	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The naturists' way of life of is to be naked. Culture is part of our daily life, and this is a special opportunity, today, the mentality is changing. Naturists ... are pushing past barriers, taboos or mentalities that were obstructive. – Julien Claude-Penegry	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
In Germany, the problem of anti-Semitism is once again multiplying rapidly, with taboos falling. – Deidre Berger	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I don't think there's going to be any taboos with Donald Trump, he's not going to treat her with any sort of kid gloves. – James Pethokoukis	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You can sometimes discover or explore taboos through porn that they can't in real life, the real issue is when it's kept a secret. Studies show that the main deleterious effect is not so much the content itself, but the shame and secrecy that contextualized its use. – Ian Kerner	Found on CNN 8 years ago
For the French, this means we must carry out reforms that break old habits once and for all. It also means the Germans will have to break taboos, if the member states are not ready for any form of financial transfer in the monetary union, as is the case today, then you can forget the euro and the euro zone. – Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He's done things in 18 months that weren't done in the past 40 years. He's broken taboos - on jobs, banks, the justice system, for foreign investors like us, 50 percent of the decision to invest money in a country depends on the credibility of its leaders. There's faith he can take Italy out of the doldrums. – Stefano Venturi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Around the turn of the century, as men’s brands started to come out, people started to realize that taking care of yourself is not effeminate or girly, some of those taboos came down, and more barbershops and spas broke the barriers and let men know it’s OK to do this stuff. – Michael Gilman	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are. – Henry Louis Mencken	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent. – Pierre Elliott Trudeau	added by anonymous 14 years ago

When the announcement was made to defund the police … that just opened the doors to a level of mayhem where taboos were erased, standards were no longer acknowledged because only the cops could be wrong – a citizen couldn’t be wrong, and so, the naivete of the leadership to not understand how the lawless community would exploit their announcement was maddening.

– Don Samuels

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There is always something taboo, something repressed, un-admitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one’s eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

– Alan Watts

added by Normando
3 years ago

We want to break the taboos, in the rest of the world, this is normal now.

– Yanahara Mauri

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In our African culture there are taboos ... we say 'this child is cursed', we will say there is witchcraft, that this child is irrecoverable, when you live ... without knowing if you are he or she, when you have to constantly justify who you are, its not easy.

– Gabonese Dorothee Adjakidjie

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Too often, the lines of freedom of speech are very deliberately being tested, and taboos are carelessly being breached and used as a political instrument, it's not banter, rather it's playing with fire. Because whoever sows violence with words, risks reaping violence.

– Angela Merkel

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The naturists' way of life of is to be naked. Culture is part of our daily life, and this is a special opportunity, today, the mentality is changing. Naturists ... are pushing past barriers, taboos or mentalities that were obstructive.

– Julien Claude-Penegry

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

In Germany, the problem of anti-Semitism is once again multiplying rapidly, with taboos falling.

– Deidre Berger

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I don't think there's going to be any taboos with Donald Trump, he's not going to treat her with any sort of kid gloves.

– James Pethokoukis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You can sometimes discover or explore taboos through porn that they can't in real life, the real issue is when it's kept a secret. Studies show that the main deleterious effect is not so much the content itself, but the shame and secrecy that contextualized its use.

– Ian Kerner

Found on CNN
8 years ago

For the French, this means we must carry out reforms that break old habits once and for all. It also means the Germans will have to break taboos, if the member states are not ready for any form of financial transfer in the monetary union, as is the case today, then you can forget the euro and the euro zone.

– Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He's done things in 18 months that weren't done in the past 40 years. He's broken taboos - on jobs, banks, the justice system, for foreign investors like us, 50 percent of the decision to invest money in a country depends on the credibility of its leaders. There's faith he can take Italy out of the doldrums.

– Stefano Venturi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Around the turn of the century, as men’s brands started to come out, people started to realize that taking care of yourself is not effeminate or girly, some of those taboos came down, and more barbershops and spas broke the barriers and let men know it’s OK to do this stuff.

– Michael Gilman

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.

– Henry Louis Mencken

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

– Pierre Elliott Trudeau

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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