Quotes About Norms

Sanity is knowing the rules of the social game,

Without careful attention, culture itself tilts toward corruption.

People believe that madness is when you don't think as they do

Christian situation ethics has only one norm or principle or law...that is binding and unexceptionable, always good and right regardless of the circumstances. That is 'love' -- the agape of the summary commandment to love God and neighbor. Everything else without exception, all laws and rules and principles and ideals and norms, are only contingent, only valid if they happen to serve love in any situation.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

In reviewing his own moral career, the stigmatized individual may single out and retrospectively elaborate experiences which serve for him to account for his coming to the beliefs and practices that he now has regarding his own kind and normals.

the model of "social order." Briefly, a social order may be defined as the consequence of any set of moral norms that regulates the way in which persons pursue objectives.

It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society. —KRISHNAMURTI

For me, self-discipline has never corresponded to a voluntary adhesion to norms invented by others. It has always been the first step towards breaking the chains.

The industry must adhere to certain consumer protection norms if the Internet is to remain an open platform for innovation.

I remember when I was younger, older folks would say to me, 'There are three things you don't talk about at a dinner party: religion, politics, and money.' But I think the truth is quite the opposite.

'The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman' is a reminder that people across the world are rebelling against norms and forging new paths for the most marginalized people in their own communities.

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

I get angry about the way women are forced and bullied into what the male ideal is.

Who says what is the right way and what isn't? That is some imagined social construct that people made up to feel okay about being average.

I can guarantee that back in the day, if a woman was left alone and she needed to eat, she would have to hunt. It's not biological imperative that says men have to ask us out; it's social conditioning. And we can change it.

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

Maintenant que nous (les femmes) pouvons devenir parfois, dans certains pays et dans certaines circonstances, des Hommes comme les autres, ce caractère qu'on croyait inné apparaît pour ce qu'il est : un conditionnement imposé.

Immorality sanctified by tradition is still immorality.

what could I say to Clovis? a woman had to obey her husband in those days, Rachel divorce was shameful and only granted on the grounds of adultery, if a marriage didn't work out, it was a life sentence

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We have these cultural norms, and we allow people to say ugly things. We don't have to like it, we don't have to invite them to our dinner parties, but you should let them say it.

The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

To be able to function in late capitalism without being a psychological wreck, it is necessary to accept the insane as standard.