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

Pierre Trudeau
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Highly educated women should challenge social taboos and get married to a man who is less educated, less successful, younger or shorter than her.

Lu Jianmin
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On taboos: we did once publish a piece by [the right-wing US social theorist] Charles Murray. But I think he's a legitimate figure. We are still, broadly speaking, on the liberal side of politics.

Philip Goodhart
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As we set about to edit, I watched 150 hours of footage over and over for a period of months. I had to figure out what hanging out with these artists doing this joke meant. In that process some ideas began to emerge: craft and art, freedom and creativity, boundaries and taboos, etc. So we used comics' performances that illustrated those ideas. We wanted to show rather than tell.

Paul Provenza
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It's not a double standard because it's the right of every culture to have its own taboos.

Roger Koppel
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For me, ... there are no real taboos, as long as it's done with respect and sensitivity and the care and creativity of an artist. But is there a clear line between pornography of a sexual and violent nature, and art? It is a fine distinction and we'll probably argue about that to the end of our days.

Piers Handling
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Sex and religion are still the great taboos in modern art.

Gilbert Proesch
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We have a tradition of satire in Denmark. We do the same with the royal family, politicians, anyone. In a modern secular society, nobody can impose their religious taboos in the public domain.

Flemming Rose
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I do not think they are asking for respect in this case. They want me to follow one of their taboos in the public domain. And I think there's a very fundamental principle in secular society that you cannot insist on everybody paying special attention to your religious feelings.

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

Diego Rivera
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Gambling has become much more normative in our culture, in our society, and in the media. If there were taboos about women only playing bingo, they've been erased.

Keith Whyte
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Today, literate people of the space age, in well-populated countries, are not prepared to accept taboos without question.

Edith Clara Summerskill
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