Quotes About Social norms

It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

If my mother were a bumper sticker, she would read THAT'S NOT APPROPRIATE. Taylor's mom would read WHY THE F*** NOT?

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

It is culture that is the b

In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Among respectable people a man who took upon himself the cares and expenses of a family before he had secured a regular trade or profession, or had accumulated some capital, and who allowed his wife to lose caste, and his children to be dirty, ragged, and neglected, would be severely blamed by the public opinion of the community. The

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I shall not be able to find my way across the room, nor know how to conduct myself in any circumstances, nor what to feel in any relation of life.

Monica was the first woman in town to bob her hair," said Miss Burgess. "And she was the first woman, at least the first respectable one, to smoke in public." "When you see her," continued Miss Claudia, "tell her I think she stepped on my train because Colonel Glass had danced with me three times that evening, and hadn't danced with her once.

In time freed from public fornication, the men of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were occupied in killing one another in tavern brawls or over tavern wenches; at the dinner table, lacking access to the fork, they used their knives to settle slights as well as scores.33

impudicitia in ingenuo crimen est, in servo necessitas, in liberto officium ("to be the object of anal penetration is a crime in the freeborn, a necessity for a slave, a duty for a freedman").

As much as it flies in the face of our stereotypes about the origins of "Western" freedoms, women in democratic Athens, unlike those of Persia or Syria, were expected to wear veils when they ventured out in public.64

If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.

Sometimes people tell me I'm a good guy. Thank God, I'd probably be a terrible woman

But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream

A person of "good character" was one who acted in accordance with the expectations of his community

I think lowering the age of consent to thirteen in New Jersey was a great idea. It might give boys a better chance to get girls before maga­zines. That's when they get hooked, in junior high.

Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.

Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.

Like anything, you just need to stay true to who you are and hope that social constructs don't get in the way of accomplishing your goals.

Who in their right mind counts the tiles on the floor when they go visiting a neighbor?

While the man is putting on it's shoes, the woman can buy dozens of high heels.

Dating--the socially accepted alternative to the rack.