Quotes About Norms

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

If God had intended for women to wear slacks, He would have constructed them differently.

It's acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they're considered aggressive and opinionated.

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

Earlier, I thought it would be better for an actress to marry a businessman or a person from other profession, as it offers more stability. But then I realised that if I marry someone who doesn't belong to the same industry , he wouldn't understand my erratic schedules and also the norms of the glamour industry.

As a matter of principle, we are opposed to destabilising a stable government, and I believe in the norms of healthy democracy.

As a woman, when you look up to a man, you want to feel protected. We do need a lot more respect and men who will stand up when they need to. That needs to be the new normal.

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.

There are so many double standards, not just in rap, but everywhere.

When you're a dweeb, when you're really young, it stands out. But as everybody gets older and more conservative, it's not an issue any more.

It's always seductive to know where one stands in relation to the average.

Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.

Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows.

To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.

Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler.

We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.