Quotes About Norms

The mob thinks we are maladjusted. Of course we are adjusted just fine, not to their frequency. They take it personally.

the real revolution for this century "would be to stop seeing the home as a gendered space" but rather as both a male and female domain, just as we now see the workplace.

The majority of American women have demanded over the last half century that society reject and revise traditional norms about what women want and what they can do. It is time to do the same for men. WHAT

Personne ne se demandait combien de temps ça durerait, l'interdiction d'avorter et de vivre ensemble sans se marier. Les signes de changements collectifs ne sont pas perceptibles dans la particularité des vies, sauf peut-être dans le dégoût et la fatigue qui font penser secrètement "rien ne changera donc jamais" à des milliers d'individus en même temps.

La representación de la sociedad se atomizaba en «temas», prioritariamente sexuales, el intercambio de parejas, los transexuales, el incesto, la pedofilia y el topless en las playas, a favor o en contra, ponían ante la vista de la gente hechos y conductas que en general nunca habían probado personalmente y que, los aprobaran o los rechazaran, creían extendidos por todas partes, cuando no convertidos en norma.

Como toda lengua, esa también jerarquizaba, estigmatizaba, a los vagos, a las mujeres casquivanas, a los «sátiros» y los malvados, a los niños malcriados, alababa a las

People don't always behave the same way on different programmes. If you go to church you don't behave the same way you do at a party in the middle of the night.

It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies.

Our immigrants joined a settler culture, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, that demanded assimilation to its norms.

I am not accustomed to protocol.

If you don't pay bribes, people think you're odd. It's very sad. I cannot say that I'm proud to be an Indonesian. This is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.

Vigorous public ball scratching is common in the combat-arms side of the Marine Corps, even among high-level officers in the midst of briefings.

What used to be moral is aesthetic for us. What was social is now individual.

Moral» es el conjunto de comportamientos y normas que tú, yo y algunos de quienes nos rodean solemos aceptar como válidos; «ética» es la reflexión sobre por qué los consideramos válidos y la comparación con otras «morales» que tienen personas diferentes

I came from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation.

I find it very difficult to see the boundary between womenswear and menswear. It's bizarre the ways in which society reacts; they find it difficult to comprehend seeing parts of the body on a man. I think it's fascinating.

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

When people question me too much, I generally ask them if such rules are applicable to someone like actor Mammootty. They reply, Mammootty is a man and you are a woman. You aren't supposed to do certain things.' And I go like, Why not? Are there separate rules for Muslim men and women?'

Men in makeup is becoming more widely accepted. But it's going to take so much more open-mindedness to have it be a common thing.

If the widespread attempts to block Brexit gave us a glimpse into how fragile our commitment to democracy had become - reduced to a technocratic in-name-only veneer - reactions to Covid are a stark reminder that freedom cannot be assumed as a social norm that's deeply embedded into our institutions and our psyche.

It's Russia. It's a patriarchal society. That's a fact you have to get used to. We have sexism. And it's widespread.