Quotes About Norms

The most elementary communication is not possible without some degree of conformity to the "conventions" of the symbolic system.

We live in a world that worships limitations

In a nation of naked people, the one who wears a rag is considered a mad man.

does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction

I did wonder what was going on inside my body, but I won't say what I hoped for. Is motherhood really optional when you're a perfectly normal woman married to a perfectly normal man?

But the yardstick is not only contrived, it's too short: my consistently perfect scores don't tell them anything, because they have no basis for comparison this far out on the bell curve.

The voice of authority speaks not for the one but for the many; authority figures have a strong and rapid effect on social norms in part because they change our assumptions about what other people think.

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage widely and openly that has long survived.

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

Men are just jealous because they can't wear makeup.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!

I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'

If men don't have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won't feel compelled to be submissive. If men don't have to control, women won't have to be controlled.

What is a man? What is a woman? And why do we have to be one or the other?

Moira wished she spoke better Russian so that she could talk to Tekla about her ideas regarding appearance and grooming. The facial scars put her well outside the norms of feminine beauty and she had doubled down by electing to keep the buzz cut. In spite of this, or perhaps because of it, she was, to put it bluntly, kind of hot. Moira hated to say it. But hotness was a part of the human condition and it was pointless to pretend that it did not exist.

but it seemed that most of the people of Seattle were still obeying the rules and so he did likewise.

Nem toda mulher gosta de apanhar, só as normais.