Quotes About Cultural norms

In China, literally in elementary school, we have to sit a certain way. You can't raise your hand anytime, you can't speak in class. So it takes a lot of courage and experimenting to kind of try to break that.

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

I never dressed like a teddy boy, and I don't like shaving but you've got to do it.

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

Civilizirani ljudi neugodniji su od divljaka zato Å¡to znaju da mogu biti nepristojni, a da im zbog toga netko ne raspolovi glavu.

men's crimes are always ours in the final analysis, aren't they, Mr Strike? Ultimate responsibility always lies with the woman, who should have stopped it, who should have acted, who must have known. Your failings are really our failings, aren't they? Because the proper role of the woman is carer,

This was not what Europe or Prussia had expected. In his childhood, Frederick had been a dreamy, delicate boy, often beaten by his father, King Frederick William I, for being unmanly. As an adolescent, he wore his hair in long curls hanging down to his waist, and costumed himself in embroidered velvet. He read French writers, wrote French poetry, and performed chamber music on the violin, the harpsichord, and the flute.

Catherine, who knew little about sex, about erections and foreskins, and, certainly, nothing about phimosis, knew well what was expected of wives in a royal marriage.

He came of a generation to which any girl, before she is married, is a kind of unexploded bomb.

You'd think BioMax could have improved on the defective male brain. . . .

What it would be to be like one of them. To have power, be seen, be heard, be dudes rather than sluts, be jocks and geeks or bros or nice guys or boys-will-be-boys instead of quantum leaping between good girl and whore. To be the default, not the exception. To be in control, to seize control, simply because we happened to have a dick.

rancor ushered in a golden age of literary assassination in American politics. No etiquette had yet evolved to define the legitimate boundaries of dissent.

I remember wondering, within a year or two of taking my first steps, why only men sat to drink tea and converse, and why women were always busy. I reasoned that men were weak and needed rest. As

As a society and as parents we face a challenge without precedent. We have to help girls and boys make a transition to a gendered adulthood, to adult life as women and men in a culture in which women can do anything, including being rocket scientists, and men can do anything, including staying home to raise a baby. We have to find ways to value and cherish gender differences without restricting freedom of opportunity.

A pair of Blue Noses on the next bench glared their disapproval at Evie's knee-length dress. Evie decided to give them a real show. She hiked her skirt and, humming jauntily, rolled down her stockings, exposing her legs. It had the desired effect on the Blue Noses, who moved down the platform, clucking about the "disgrace of the young." She would not miss this place.

Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!

Appearance is valued too much in our society.

I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

We don't evaluate what's right and wrong, we live in a society. We live in a culture. We have to live within the culture.