Quotes About Norms

the Nordic concept of janteloven, which meant: Don't think you're so special—remember that the nail that sticks out is the one the hammer hits.

Sus modales eran impecables, requisito esencial en la clase alta, dónde el uso debido del tenedor era más importante que las condiciones morales de un sujeto.

El individualismo se consideraba una forma de demencia

pero ese tema era tabú en aquellos tiempos de hipocresía colectiva.

I think the gender norms of emotion are horrendous. Being masculine means showing zero emotions, but having the choice to be angry or depressed. Being female means you are one dimensional - if you show more than that, you are a psycho, hysterical, or historically, a witch.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

Trump's lying, his self-regard, his self-soothing, his lack of empathy, his narcissistic rage, his contempt for norms, rules, laws, facts and simple truths - have all come home to roost.

You can't escape culture. You can learn about it. You can criticize it. You can try to move it slowly. But at the end of the day, you can't actually opt out of the culture that you're in.

Turkey initiated true multiparty elections in 1950 to join NATO. As a requirement of its membership, NATO can and should demand that Turkey honor its commitment to the alliance's democratic norms.

TV shows about TV were taboo for a while.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.

You can cut your hair how you want, but I think you should get to where you wear it normal for the future.

Girls would never do anything so unladylike as run, Norma explained. They would skip instead. And they would never, goodness gracious, sit so their skirts would hike up. Both boys and girls were taught respect for their elders, which included never interrupting or talking back to any adult. "I'm glad I didn't live back then," Catherine said (but not until later, when she wasn't interrupting anyone).

how can human beings behave in ways that so thoroughly violate both reasonable and rational norms?

All right, let's consider some history here. I see a number of girls are wearing pants. This used to be frowned upon. In 1938, Helen Hulick was jailed for wearing slacks -- put behind bars. Do you think society should have the right to jail or punish you for what you choose to wear?

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.

I think our society has sort of built this gender binary, and the way we've said it exists does not really exist in nature.

The will to set values and the power to make them law are jointly at the bottom of all operative norms. When linked to divine wisdom, this source of moral law is still in safe hands which man can trust.

We believe that when all nations adhere to international rules and norms and when we conduct on the basis of sovereign equality and mutual respect, our nations feel secure, and our economies prosper.

Normative Economics is like religion without the aesthetics.

And many of the problems of society come from the argument "other people are doing it.

It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society.

They conformed so closely to their culture of nonconformity that there was a uniformity to them, defeating the whole purpose.