Quotes About Norms

Most of us try to just live with what society tells us is important

Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.

Today it is the hope of many both here and abroad that we might some day overcome the basic structure of regime politics and organize our world around global norms of justice and international law. Is such a hope possible? It cannot be entirely ruled out, but such a world—a world administered by international courts of law, by judges and judicial tribunals—would no longer be a political world. Politics is only possible within the structure of the regime.

Law is a reflection of society, justice is a reflection of an idealization of that society.

Waking up from the cultural trance may require you to challenge your most fundamental beliefs and step outside of societal norms. When this happens, you discover new insights about yourself and typically go through a revision of who you are and what your relationship with the Earth is.

Our social mores no longer conform to a world where nice girls wear skirts that don't cling.

I'd been brought up in a society which didn't talk about sex, food, money, religion or politics. Those things were all deemed slightly rude.

So, I think slowly, the women of this industry are changing the norms and I'm proud to be one of them.

It is easy to defend the right of people to do things that fit in with the cultural norms of the majority. This includes practices that give personal pleasure but may be harmful, such as smoking or drinking. It is harder to argue for minority activities, especially those which stand out and may be obviously unsuitable in certain contexts.

Whatever the variations by race, class, age, ethnicity, or sexual orientation, being a man means not being like women. This notion of antifemininity lies at the heart of contemporary and historical conceptions of manhood, so that masculinity is defined more by what one is not rather than who one is.

Women are not entirely wrong when they reject the moral rules proclaimed in society, since it is we men alone who have made them.

The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.

The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.

For was this transformation of sex into discourse not governed by the endeavor to expel from reality the forms of sexuality that were not amenable to the strict economy of reproduction: to say no to unproductive activities, to banish casual pleasures, to reduce or exclude practices whose object was not procreation?

The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species.

En una sociedad como la nuestra son bien conocidos los procedimientos de exclusión. El más evidente, y el más familiar también, es lo prohibido.

in a classless society, I am not sure that we would still use this notion of justice

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.

It was easy to see how upsetting it would be if women began to love freely where love came to them. An abyss would open in the principal shopping street of every town.

Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?

society dictated foolish amounts of discretion in response to bad behavior, especially for women.

Gay is the new straight, in case you haven't noticed.