Quotes About Norms

Onde a norma de conduta não é o próprio carácter, mas as tradições e costumes alheios, falta um dos principais ingredientes da felicidade humana e, de modo completo, o principal ingrediente do progresso individual e social.

Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters: and his circumstances or his character may be uncustomary.

average men and women don't really exist except as a statistical conceit.

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.

in a society concerned primarily with process, the notion of deviance might have much less, if any, significance.

Informality is the vice of the masses.

The violence of many Viking raids must not obscure the fact that the Vikings also enjoyed peaceful relations with the world around them, based on accepted norms for social behaviour and on special agreements.

It seems insane now that no one even raised an eyebrow, when you consider what I was wearing and doing onstage, but it was a different world then.

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

we should not say that an act offends the common consciousness because it is criminal, but that it is criminal because it offends the common consciousness

Methodological rules are for science what rules of law and custom are for conduct.

There are no exceptions to the rule that everyone thinks they're an exception to the rules

When money and comfort are absent, other more fundamental aspects take on greater importance. Traditions, rules, taboos.

Well, I shouldn't like my wife to do housework in the evenings, would you?' 'No, I suppose not, but women usually have their own way.

But now respectable elderly women do not need to excuse themselves for buying brandy or even gin, though it is quite likely that some still do and perhaps one may hope that they always will.

Remember, whenever too many people fail a requirement, there's nothing wrong with them, there's something wrong with the requirement.

we have a tendency to look around at what others are doing and use them as a standard of comparison.

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

If everybody was a bank clerk, then I would be a rebel. But if everyone was a rebel, then I promise you I would go out of my way to be a bank clerk.

The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.

Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.

I always hated that clothing was gendered when I was young.

As for queueing-up, during the past five or ten years it has become what the psychologists call a conditioned reflex. If you put a dozen English people together, they form themselves into a queue almost instinctively.

When the norms that made the old institutions useful began to unwind, and the leaders abandoned their posts, the Roosevelt Republic that had reigned for almost half a century came undone. The void was filled by the default force in American life, organized money.