Quotes About Social norms

I've laughed hysterically, just trying to hold it in, at every funeral I've been to, because everyone's so serious. And there are a lot of people speaking publicly, which makes you understand why it's people's number one fear - because everyone shouldn't do it.

The voice of authority speaks not for the one but for the many; authority figures have a strong and rapid effect on social norms in part because they change our assumptions about what other people think.

We're raised to believe that black men have to be one specific way.

I have Asperger's, I'm on the autism spectrum, so I don't really care about social codes. It makes you think differently.

Prom drops girls squarely into the beauty spending pipeline.

We don't have spittoons on street corners any more. It's no longer acceptable to spit on the street.

I committed a cardinal sin as a kid. I never spoke, and my mother thought there was something seriously wrong with me. A silent child is regarded as a problem in Ireland, and I just read all the time.

I've always maintained that there's no such thing as period acting, I think that's a class thing. I don't believe that people moved and spoke much differently than we do now.

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.

I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.

If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.

Men are just jealous because they can't wear makeup.

Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.

If men don't have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won't feel compelled to be submissive. If men don't have to control, women won't have to be controlled.

What is a man? What is a woman? And why do we have to be one or the other?

Perverted is any ordinary person caught in the act.

Okay,' said Jack phlegmatically. 'Be seeing you.' Friends and women, he knew, never really mixed.

Because that's what normal people do. That's the way society works. You can't just tell people whatever pops into your mind. It makes them uncomfortable or hurts their feelings. And just so you know, employers hate it.

I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.

Las niñas novias de la India son azotadas y en ocasiones quemadas vivas si se considera que la lastimera dote que aportan al matrimonio es demasiado irrisoria.