Quotes About Norms

Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

But Nadja was poor, which in our time is enough to condemn her, once she decided not to behave entirely according to the imbecile code of good sense and good manners.

Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.

Sunbae-hoobae seniority is a very tricky, weird kind of thing.

It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

People who cling rigidly to gender binaries are more than welcome to. But for a lot of young people, we're seeing that our gender roles don't have to be dictated by a set of rules made by society. We can do whatever feels natural to us.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Besides inquiries as to our general well-being, the first thing asked about us, in our first seconds of being alive, is whether we're a boy or girl. Our first passport through this world is our genitals.

In Japan, violence isn't as controversial as it is in the West.

I believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of western life. It is in the family that children are groomed to practise, promote and pass on the norms of their parents' culture.

Training a reliable military force that adheres to Western norms and standards is the work of a generation, not a few months.

It's very easy for the U.S. or Western Europe to have this moral line of right versus wrong, and you go, 'Well, that's breaking the law.' 'Why?' 'Because it's the law.'

What people don't realize is that when you start making things outside of the convention of what is normal or good or 'best practices,' you're also shedding some of the baggage that comes with the concept of what a game 'should' be.

All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.

I am a big advocate for having an open discussion about team norms and preferences. At The Muse, some of us like to start working at 7:30 A.M. Others focus best from 10 P.M. to 2 A.M. Create a culture where it's acceptable not to be working when someone else is working.

In my family, people become pregnant at 33 or something, not 26.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

There are basic lines of human decency, norms to which society generally agrees and to which we adhere, and we continue to see the Trump presidency eroding these lines.

The idea that the president doesn't interfere in law-enforcement investigative matters is one of our deep normative expectations of the modern presidency. But it is not a matter of law. Legally, if the president of the United States wants to direct the specific conduct of investigations, that is his constitutional prerogative.

The society in which we live in Delhi is conservative.

My position on Speedos changes depending on the country that I'm in. If you're in Europe, it's definitely acceptable.

I've always told my children that Americans will tell you pretty much anything, but that convention dictates that we don't like to talk money or politics.

Different cultures have different predilections for different kinds of crime.