Quotes About Norms

Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

I do accept at least half of what society in general holds to be right.

Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

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

It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.

People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.

The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

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.

Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society.

Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.

Culture is a product of law. And laws create norms for society. This is why anyone who wants to change the culture of a country must try to change the norms of the country.

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.

I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colorful.

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.

Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.

Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.