Quotes About Social norms

Don't worry," says Ricky. "I'm sure everyone isn't bringing a present. You can just think of paying the cover charge as your gift." "What? A cover charge? Presents? What are these people, a bunch of capitalists?

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." —J. Krishnamurti

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

It was the people who tried to seem normal all the time who were really messed up

They had no idea what was or wasn't appropriate behavior, no concept of the usual give and take of normal relationships.

As a kid I was very conscious of trying to be functional and not be too odd.

Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.

Some of the material in 'Peep Show' I wouldn't sit down and watch with even my parents, who are not easily offended.

We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.

I don't really believe in rules, but I do like old-fashioned dating where you don't call the guy until he calls you. I don't think it's like he's got to do this and that's the rule.

A good number of my friends are married, which seems very old-fashioned.

The only time it gets weird is which bathroom do I go into sometimes.

If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Have some bread and butter. The bread and butter is for Gwendolen. Gwendolen is devoted to bread and butter.

It is better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world.

Todo delito es vulgar, de la misma manera que todo lo vulgar es delito.

I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it's absurd to tack a 'sir' on to every sentence. The two things don't go together.

How does he look, Jeeves? Sir? What does Mr Bassington-Bassington look like? It is hardly my place, sir, to criticize the facial peculiarities of your friends.

The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole, but I would have given a shilling to be able to do it. There seemed to me something deliberately fat-headed in the way she persisted in missing the gist.

Well, everybody seems to be doing it, I said, so I suppose I had better make the thing unanimous. Here's a fiver. Why, thank you, sir. This is extremely - It won't seem much compared with these vast sums you've been acquiring. Oh, I assure you, sir. And I don't know why I'm giving it to you. No, sir. Still, there it is. Thank you very much, sir.

If people feel a conflict between their inclinations and a norm that is followed by everybody else, it is a conflict within their heads.

You the white teacher. I thought you one of the boys." Then she paused. "You gonna drink it?" "Yep." "Teachers drink?" "Yep." "That's good. Oh Gawd, that's so good. I got some gin in that there paper bag when you finish.

An estimated 85 percent of those with dyssemia have the deficit because they failed to learn how to read nonverbal signals or how to respond to them, either because they did not interact enough with their peers or because their family did not display a given range of emotion or followed eccentric social norms.

Is it OK not to be a virgin, yes. Most people aren't virgins, Min. That's why there's people to begin with.