Quotes About Cultural norms

Homosexuals can be, you know, committed to each other. And they have freedom to behave in the ways that they do, but they cannot be a family. They cannot be married. I mean, virtually every culture in the history of the world has considered marriage to be between one woman and one man.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

We see it when bullies are in charge. It becomes part of the culture of an institution, a family, an ethnic group, a country. It becomes not just acceptable, but expected. Applauded even.

Non riuscendo a identificare la prole, i custodi non potranno anteporre la famiglia allo stato e nessun giovane oserà mai colpire un anziano nel timore che si tratti del proprio genitore.

Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

On our planet, sir, males and females copulate. Moreover, they enjoy copulating. But for various reasons they cannot do this whenever, wherever, and with whomever they choose. Hence all this running around that you observe. Hence the world.

Crying when feeling angry is a common female feeling racket.

in those days I didn't drink, smoke, swear, or speak Italian.

Deadbeat dads are all over the place, it's almost kind of common... but when a mother leaves her child, people think "how could a woman do that???"

You want to make the first move but you can't because people will think that "OH YOURE A GIRL, WHY WILL YOU DO THAT?"

Men were never expected to be monogamous.

I don't know if any woman is completely happy with the way she leads her life or with the way people treat her.

Liberals consider people to be nuisances.

It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.

Culture has no logic.

A lot of people who are marketing to girls are going to where they are, not to where they ought to be.

there is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

What is natural depends upon point of view, the choice of metaphor, and therefore, the culture. The design difficulties occur when there is a switch in metaphors. Airplane

Varb?t t?p?c j?s esat tik liela auguma, ka dzerat t?ju ar pienu. M?s ??n? nedr?kstam dzert t?ju ar pienu; ja m?s izaugtu tik lieli, mums vairs neb?tu vietas un b?tu j?izce?o.

His ability came from being raised in Blackford County, Indiana, where cussing among men was as necessary as church on Sunday. Except, in Wade's case, it was church on Saturday, because Wade's daddy was a religious bigot who hated Jews, Negroes, Catholics, Coca Cola (which represented frivolity and broken dietary laws), F.D.R., city people, country people, and members of his own 7th Day Adventist church.

In the Indian culture you never told your parents, your wife, your husband or your children, "I love you." This was not a part of this culture because the moment you say it, it's almost like it's not there. You're only trying to assert it. Love is not an assertion. Love is a supplication. An asserting mind can never be a loving mind.

The word 'slut' (in patois) was repeated over and over, until suddenly I felt as if I were drowning in a well but instead of the well being filled with water it was filled with the word 'slut,' and it was pouring in through my eyes, my ears, my nostrils, my mouth. As if to save myself, I turned to her and said, 'Well, like father like son, like mother like daughter.

I had just begun to notice that people who knew the correct way to do things such as hold a teacup, put food on a fork and bring it to their mouth without making a mess on the front of their dress—they were the people responsible for the most misery, the people least likely to end up insane or paupers.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.