Quotes About Norms

The United States took the lead in shaping the norms, rules and institutions of what became the liberal international order, including the United Nations, the international financial institutions and the Marshall Plan.

I think the institutions, principles, norms, and traditions that make the United States of America genuinely exceptional are at serious risk. It has been hard to think about anything else.

Rules matter, and to be rules they need to be universal in form: always do this, never do that. But it is foolish to rule out in advance the possibility that an occasion might arise when normal rules just don't apply. Rules are not there to be broken, but sometimes break them we must.

Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions to enforce them while seeking, by hook or by crook, to exempt American citizens, especially soldiers, from their actual application.

As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony.

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

People have a lot less leniency for some reason for women straying from a relationship than they do for men.

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.

Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.

If women were the equals of men, men would no longer equal themselves. Why then should women resemble what men would have ceased to be?

Our society and institutions are built to push men and women into different roles. We need to change that.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares

What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?

There are men who do exist who have no desire for women. That doesn't necessarily mean they have an interest in men, but scholars often interpret it to mean those men who don't have sexual knowledge.

I don't feel that men have been wrong. I don't feel that women are wrong for using their second attention to combat sexual repression. That's just how it's been.

The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men.

In some countries, women aren't allowed to wear a swimsuit.

We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can.

Gender Quotes are social disease.

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

Statistics are there to be broken.