Quotes About Norms

The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.

Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.

In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased.

No, traditions and norms aren't rules in the Constitution. There's a difference between a tradition and a law.

People still ask my husband and me which of us is the mom - which, as one lesbian friend pointed out to me, is like asking which chopstick is the fork. This pressure on us to embody normative traditions can be paralysing.

Americans are locked into our traditions.

Since John Smith's death and the Blair/Brown takeover in 1994, party members have watched the way in which an elite leadership group has formed in the Labour party, cutting itself off from the party's traditions, values and norms of behaviour.

It is the job of government to prevent a tragedy of the commons. That includes the commons of shared values and norms on which democracy depends.

Clearly, we are not programmed at birth to behave a certain way based on our gender. Instead, we are trained throughout our lives to conform to our gender norms.

Because we're brought into the world or educated in a certain way, we're trained to accept the world in a certain way.

We've never lived in an environment in which it has been so easy to capture information and share it. That fact that it is digital and easy to transmit exacerbates that. I don't know that we know yet what social norms we wish to adopt.

If you tell someone you're divorced they don't even blink, but tell them you've never been married and they wonder what's wrong with you.

The expectation of mutual fidelity is a rather recent invention. Numerous cultures have allowed husbands to seek sexual gratification outside marriage. Less frequently, but often enough to challenge common preconceptions, wives have also been allowed to do this without threatening the marriage. In a study of 109 societies, anthropologists found that only 48 forbade extramarital sex to both husbands and wives.27

standards. I don't think Oliver would have

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.

If we choose to behave differently, we are considered 'Mad' or 'immature

Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.

Ladies did not participate in 'situations'.

They can't," said Jonathan. "The Dame is always played by a man." "And the Principal Boy is always a girl," agreed Judy. "It's traditional." "I don't see why," insisted Paddington.

And there's this saying they have about conformist society: The nail that sticks out gets pounded down.

Ma bisogna ammettere che queste non sono questioni banali. Viviamo in un mondo pieno di orride convenzioni. Si dà per scontato che ci si debba comportare in un determinato modo, che ci si debba curare di determinate cose. Nessuno pensa alle convenzioni di base. Non è straordinario? Nella società dell'informazione, nessuno pensa. Eravamo convinti che avremmo abolito la carta, ma in realtà abbiamo abolito il pensiero.»

Ahora bien, es un hecho conocido que, a veces, los libros se tienen entre sí un odio mortal. Aún tratándose de libros enteramente normales, cualquiera que tenga un poco de tacto no colocará Justine junto a Heidi ni Las leyes tributarias junto a La historia interminable, aunque, naturalmente, los libros normales no pueden oponerse a eso...

Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need a public debate about the moral limits of markets.