Taboos

Examples

• Anyone who has had the smallest experience of municipal politics knows that the corruption of the police is directly proportionate to the severity of the taboos it is asked to enforce. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The aroused public opinion which the Commission asks for cannot be held if all it has to fix upon is an elaborate series of taboos. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There would be no more empty taboos, no erecting of institutions upon abstract and mechanical analogies. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Nothing dynamic holds the recommendations together--the mass of them are taboos, an attempt to kill each mosquito and ignore the marsh. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• On all sides of them is a mass of taboos. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It bowed to the prevailing conscience when it proposed taboos instead of radical changes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The old routines and the old taboos are breaking up anyway, social forces are emerging which seek autonomy and struggle against slavery to non-human purposes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The same people who with daily insistence say that innovators ignore facts are in the absurd predicament of trying to still human wants with petty taboos. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Note how vague and general are the chance constructive suggestions; how precise and definite the taboos. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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