Taboo/examples

Famous quotes containing the words taboo and/or examples:

“Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing.... Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn’t the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)

“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)