Neil deGrasse Tyson

Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if you want to call yourself a planet. Come on, now! There's something especially transgressive about that.

American Scientist

Ray Comfort

Man is unique in creation because he has a sense of justice and truth. We spend billions of dollars each year to set up court systems to see that justice is done, and we build prisons for those who transgress the laws we enact.

New Zealander Clergyman

H. Rap Brown

There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.

American Activist

Johann Johannsson

I am not very extreme in my life. But I'm very attracted to art that works with extremes and works with limits, that transgresses limits and transcends limits and crosses borders and has a certain boldness.

Icelander Composer

John Cho

I don't know what the next frontier is, but good comedy should put its toe into taboo waters. You have to transgress a little bit, and that area shifts with culture and with the year.

American Actor

Irvine Welsh

There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile phone - so you have people who do it on your behalf.

Scottish Novelist

Hesiod

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

Greek Poet

Jeremy Scott

Fashion should have a transgressive nature; it can make you feel like someone else, give you heightened emotion. It should bring you joy and uplift you.

American Designer

Janet Malcolm

The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre.

American Writer

Robert Louis Stevenson

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

Scottish Writer

Use 'transgress' to indicate serious violations of social or official expectations.

Social Expectations

'Transgress' often implies facing consequences or penalties for breaking rules.

Consequences Implied

The word 'transgress' is more common in formal contexts and written English.

Formal Contexts

'Transgress' suggests going beyond moral or ethical boundaries, not just physical ones.

Moral Overstepping

'Transgressing' may differ across cultures, as boundaries are not universally defined.

Cultural Nuance

In religious texts, 'transgress' is commonly used to mean sinning or disobeying divine laws.

Religious Context

'Transgress' in a religious sense often carries a strong connotation of moral guilt or wrongdoing.

Connotation of Guilt

 And today, we are in a situation where we estimate that we've transgressed three boundaries, the rate of biodiversity loss, which is the sixth extinction period in the history of humanity -- one of them being the extinctions of the dinosaurs -- nitrogen and climate change. But we still have some degrees of freedom on the others, but we are approaching fast

Let the environment...

 we actually felt like we were going to be arrested. It seemed kind of transgressive to talk about medicine and health care in the same breath, and yet it became liberating, because we found not only data but also good and honest people out there in the system who want to help folks get the care they need at a price they can afford.

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 unable quite to bring themselves to put in good sexual and reproductive health services for sex workers, unable quite to be giving out needles to junkies. But once they've gone from being transgressive people whose behaviors we don't want to condone to being AIDS victims,

Elizabeth Pisani: Sex,...

 and we are not accomplishing a safe operating space for humanity. So this really led us to a quite disappointing conclusion, that we will actually, even if we go conventional futures, fail on the SDGs and transgress planetary boundaries. We need some radical thinking.

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 They see the world as governed by fundamental ecological processes with limits that we transgress to our peril. "Use less, conserve," they say. "Otherwise, everybody's going to lose." Wizards and prophets have been butting their heads together for decades,

How will we survive when...

 Given that merely human hackers find bugs all the time, I'd say, probably not very confident. So we disconnect the ethernet cable to create an air gap, but again, like merely human hackers routinely transgress air gaps using social engineering.

What happens when our...

 The main point is that once you transgress one, the risks start multiplying. The planetary boundaries are all deeply connected, but climate, alongside biodiversity, are core boundaries. They impact on all others.

10 years to transform...

 Honor killings take place in many parts of the world, where men punish women who transgress rules made by women who choose to marry on their own free will; or women who are looking for a divorce;

How film transforms the...

 She is no more a free individual. She becomes the so-called honor of her father and of her brothers and of her family, and if she transgresses

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 You want to be stimulated. You want to be aroused. You want to be transgressed. It's like this, like an amusement park.

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