Taboo

(noun.) an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion.

(noun.) a prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature.

(verb.) declare as sacred and forbidden.

(adj.) forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands .

整理:莫顿

• When the mass of men emerged from slavish obedience and made democracy inevitable, the taboo entered upon its final illness. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• For reasons worth analyzing later, these representative American citizens desired both the immediate taboo and an ultimate annihilation of vice. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• As soon as government begins to supply services, it is turning away from the sterile tyranny of the taboo. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• For if ownership is a human need, we certainly cannot taboo it as the extreme communists so dogmatically urge. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Far better we may say that moral and social problems be left to private solution than that they be subjected to the clumsy method of the taboo. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The policeman with his taboo did make moral and social questions insusceptible to treatment in party platforms. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• If by some magic every taboo of the commission could be enforced the abolition of sex slavery would not have come one step nearer to reality. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• You cannot beat the bosses with the reformer's taboo. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Its only method was to forbid, to prosecute, to jail--in short, to use the taboo. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The routineer with his taboo does not see this, so he attempts the impossible task of obliterating the impulse. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But if the problem is more heavily charged with power, the taboo irritates the force until it explodes. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The routineer in a panic turns to the taboo. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Possibly they were somewhat disillusioned about the present instruments of the taboo; perhaps they imagined that a new broom would sweep clean. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• If it is, then the taboo enforced by a Morals Police is, perhaps, as good a way as any of gaining a fictitious sense of activity. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Without it there would to-day be no demand for a creative statesmanship which turns its back upon the routine and the taboo, kings and idols, and non-human purposes. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• 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. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• 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. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• There would be no more empty taboos, no erecting of institutions upon abstract and mechanical analogies. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Nothing dynamic holds the recommendations together--the mass of them are taboos, an attempt to kill each mosquito and ignore the marsh. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• On all sides of them is a mass of taboos. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It bowed to the prevailing conscience when it proposed taboos instead of radical changes. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• 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. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• 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. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Note how vague and general are the chance constructive suggestions; how precise and definite the taboos. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

校对:凯尔西