Quotes About Norms

Society, not science, determines what is normal in the lives we lead, and that, right now, is the problem.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

Non-Jews realized well that their non-conformity would not likely get them in trouble, and it almost never did.

de lo que podemos considerar como el aspecto sórdido de la vida se origina en la conformidad de "lo que se hace". ¿Cuántos

Montesquieu, who wrote that "bad examples can be worse than crimes." He continued: "More states have perished because of a violation of their mores than because of a violation of their Laws." What

corporal discipline was de rigueur

Patriarchal castration has two forms: captivity and possession. In captivity, the ego remains totally dependent upon the father as the representative of collective norms—that is, it identifies with die lower father and thus loses its connection with the creative powers. It remains bound by traditional morality and conscience, and, as though castrated by convention, loses the higher half of its dual nature.

We tend to automatically associate hearty meat dishes with men and lighter salads and sweets with women, and these stereotypes are replicated in cultures as different as France and Japan.

what we are prepared to accept in the way of the technology of eating is often determined more by cultural forces than function.

Traditional cuisines across the world were founded on a strong sense of balance, with norms about which foods go together, and how much one should eat at different times of the day.

Like most people who proclaim themselves free spirits, she was fiercely conventional.

In a perfect world the current laws would not apply.

Cities create entirely new taboos and restrictions even as they liberate.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

Culture is a reflection of values.

There is still a great deal of self-hatred that we refuse to deal with because we are still measuring ourselves against the norms of a masculine, heterosexual world. That is the backdrop with which we measure the man.

More Than' challenges every norm, refuses to accept the rules as they are, one-size-fits-all, and most importantly, 'More Than' implores you to take massive risk.

In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for them. This phenomenon has never been related to how rich, poor, successful or not successful the woman may be.

Being in a heterosexual relationship for a woman is always implicitly a little bit humiliating.

When you grow up in something, you don't even know if it's bad or good. You just know that's how it is.

It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

TV and social media has such as huge impact for what we think is normal and what is OK. And that's for good and bad a lot of the time.

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.