Quotes About Normalization

We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

college wasn't more school, as Chris had anticipated. School was a normalization of the familiar. College was a penetration into the exotic.

It is true that food banks are a sign that the British retain their altruistic instincts. I support my local food banks whenever and however I can. But I am deeply concerned about their normalisation.

What I'm really excited for is to see the evolution of trans characters and see more diverse stories be told, so that every time we're on screen, we're not really playing the part of educator and having to explain the experience to the audience, because it will have already been normalized.

She's lived with it for forty years . . . People who live with something that massive stop being able to see it. It's the backdrop of their lives. It's only glaringly obvious to everyone else.

Death conditioning begins at eighteen months. Every tot spends two mornings a week in a month in a Hospital for the Dying. All the best toys are kept there, and they get chocolate cream on death days. They learn to take dying as a matter of course.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

Al final todo se iguala según el nivel más bajo.

There mustn't be a moment when we turn on the TV and think, 'There's Trump in the White House' - that must never feel normal.

There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.

Overcoming problems on your own normalizes the situation, teaches new skills, and brings you closer to the people who were helpful. Taking a pill labels you as different and sick, even if you really aren't. Medication is essential when needed to reestablish homeostasis for those who are suffering from real psychiatric disorder. Medication interferes with homeostasis for those who are suffering from the problems of everyday life.

My husband calls me a ginger every single day of my life, so that Im completely used to it, and Ive come to see it as a term of endearment.

The spectre of alternative truth – highly organised, large-scale lies – that haunts the establishment today was heralded by the normalisation of shamelessness.

My book 'Things Get Better' has normalised the idea that it's OK to fail and it's OK to seek professional help from psychologists.

The problem with today's world is that hate is normalized.

We applaud the great strides made through genetic identification research, however, we do not condone the use of such information for eugenics and related purposes...The question of what lives are worth living is now answered in doctors' offices instead of in Nazis' T-4 programme. The forces of normalisation seem to be gaining ground.

The once terrible was now commonplace, meaning that people accepted it as the norm and went on living, instead of getting needlessly agitated.

If there's one thing I have learned it's that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops being strange

People forget how sensational the things are that they do. They don't see it on themselves. It blends into the background of their daily life.

Life is a continuous cycle of once-terrifying things becoming normal.

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.

I really want to see normalization of queer sexuality - as well as the lack of sexuality.

I think the original 'Queer Eye' definitely started us on the journey to normalize the LGBT community and make people realize that we are just people just like everyone else. It started the road to acceptance.