Quotes About Norms

There's no reason why women shouldn't behave like rational beings," Simon asserted stolidly. Poirot said dryly: "Quite frequently they do. That is even more upsetting!

Man is an unoriginal animal. Unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life, equally unoriginal outside the law.

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

I found comfort in aggression, in breaking through false walls and challenging norms.

We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.

The rifts in this ancient wall continue to be patched with exhortations to women to avoid challenging the norm even if it means faking orgasm and sacrificing honesty in their intimate relationships with men. In the past we have been willing to pay this price; whether we should continue to do so is question for individuals; not historians, to decide.

the rule of thumb' referred historically to the maximum width of the stick with which a man could beat his wife without breaking the law.

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.

Em breve, o sociólogo e o historiador, eles também filhos da Formalidade, esquecerão o riso ácido, a zombaria sutil, o humor que sente os pólos em confronto. Então o mundo volverá à solenidade, à gravidade, irremediavelmente mergulhado no lado do qual extrairá as regras, as normas e as leis de conduta

Around the year 2000, businesses around the country went 'business casual.'

We limit ourselves. We're told to act and behave in certain way from birth.

I think culture is a very challenging thing to reverse.

We now live in a country where it is seen as abnormal, or even criminal, to allow children to be away from direct adult supervision, even for a second.

More than any other candidate, Mr. Trump embodies the evolving norms of communication that are being enabled and encouraged by technology and the matrix of connectivity that defines modern life: authenticity over authority, surprise over consistency, celebrity over experience.

I always thought, because America is supposed to be the land of the free, nudity would be part of the norm over there, but it isn't. It's surprising.

Chastity is the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

Ohne Bedenken brach er das Versprechen, das er sich selbst gegeben hatte. Derlei Schwüre gelten nur für Möwen, die mit dem Mittelmaß zufrieden sind. Wer einmal das Außerordentliche erfahren hat, kann sich nicht mehr an die Normen des Durchschnitts binden.

Les adieux classiques, où tout le monde respecte pieusement les formes, c'est l'exception, dans la vie, pas la règle.

heteronormativity.

The conventional accept and are frequently charmed by a certain unconventionality.

One of the first things she asked me was why I wore my watch on the inside of my wrist. I couldn't justify it, so I turned the face round, and put time on the outside, as normal, grown-up people did.

Basic male display behaviour of the period, determinedly individualistic while actually dependent on a strict imitation of prevailing norms (...)