Quotes About Norms

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average. And is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.

La vie ne connaît pas la réversibilité. Mais si elle n'admet pas le rétablissement, la vie admet des réparations qui sont vraiment des innovations physiologiques. La réduction plus ou moins grande de ces possibilités d'innovation mesure la gravité de la maladie. Quant à la santé, au sens absolu, elle n'est pas autre chose que l'indétermination initiale de la capacité d'institution de nouvelles normes biologiques.

In a world that is more interconnected and interdependent than ever before, it is critical that we work together to uphold the norms and statutes that keep our citizens safe, our countries secure, and our economies fair.

Smartness, a good appearance, courtesy, delicacy are not yet norms, are not yet an integral part of the approach of workers in the state apparatus, of their approach either to work or to dealing with the public.

My childhood was as heavily gendered as any you would find in a working-class household in Lincolnshire.

The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.

I come from a family where two wheelers were not allowed. No seriously not even a tiny cycle around the compound.

When I got there, all the pasta and science stuff hadn't quite caught on in England - things that were perfectly acceptable then wouldn't be tolerated now.

As individuals, we have enormous power in the ways we abandon the scapegoated, or instead stand up for them. We have power to change the ways we encourage shunning and instead do the work to facilitate communication. Simple shifts in personal behavior and their expressions in political structures of power, produce changing public norms which can make huge differences in individual and collective experiences.

How easy it was, she thought unhappily as she did it, for men and women. They could stand in a street and argue, flirt - they could kiss, make love, do anything at all - and the world indulged them.

As for women and men, she said—well, that was the first thing that must be cast off.

Having a relationship and not even a sexual one is so straight, it's practically perverted.

Culture socializes us into what is considered proper behavior. For Christians, this is true in our churches as well as in society at large.

Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.

We have been in the process of reprogramming men and the way they are raised for a long time.

The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.

It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.

We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

In this world one must be like everybody else if he doesn't want to provoke scorn or envy or jealousy.

That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.

Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.

once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.

They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much.