Quotes About Norms

Wer den Normen entspricht, kann es sich leisten zu verzweifeln, dass es sie gibt.

It's all so un-Victorian.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

she says it's a tradition --- which must mean all those things people do that they don't know why they do 'em." from the novella Christopher O'Connor's Romances

The Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci used the term 'cultural hegemony' to describe the way in which ideas and concepts which benefit a dominant class are universalized. They become norms, adopted whole and unexamined, which shape our thinking. Perhaps we suffer from agricultural hegemony: what is deemed to be good for farmers or landowners is deemed, without question or challenge, to be good for everyone.

La santé est une façon d'aborder l'existence en se sentant non seulement possesseur ou porteur, mais aussi au besoin, créateur de valeur, instaurateur de normes vitales.

What once were vices are now manners.

The nail that sticks out is hammered down.

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

In almost any society, I think, the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as, and no better than that of the conformists.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

If men had to wear heels, they'd be outlawed across the land.

Qué le da derecho a sentir asco por los tópicos cuando el resto del mundo los acepta y vive de acuerdo con ellos?

Porque carece de talento para mentir, engañar o saltarse las normas, igual que tampoco lo tiene para el placer y la ropa moderna. Solo tiene talento para la tristeza, la tristeza sincera y aburrida.

Traditional laws and cultural norms are flimsy mantles of power and influence. Democracy, however, when it is truly exercised, is a stone fortress that cannot be surmounted, blown asunder, or burrowed under.

Yeah, his being your friendly neighborhood drug lord, pimp, and enforcer really fit in with the Norman Rockwell routine. Totally.

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

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I think you will find me to be a typical middle-class American.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

If it's unseemly and possibly dangerous for a man to be angry, it's totally unacceptable for a woman to be angry.

There are so many hard-wired ideas we've grown up with that we're now realizing are unacceptable.

Something I've always written about is social expectations: that the eyes of the community are on you all the time, expecting you to line up with certain social norms, certain behaviours. Whenever you forgot about them, they'd be strongly reiterated to you, in no uncertain terms.

[In] my era everybody smoked and everybody drank and there was no drug use