Quotes About Norms

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

Society's mores have changed, and what used to be thought not to be cruel and unusual now is thought to be cruel and unusual.

Donald Trump has taken a battering ram to longstanding political norms - the unwritten conventions that make governance possible. But even before he decided to run for president, those norms were under assault.

In my family, it was kind of an unwritten rule that certain behaviors that would have been crossing a line for other people were OK if you were a particular Trump.

I couldn't join my husband's business as, according to my father-in-law's unwritten convention, women of the house aren't allowed to meddle in the family business.

I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.

The male role is heavily policed from birth, by parents, peers and bosses. Politicians in particular are harshly kept in line by a media that seems to uphold more bizarrely rigid standards of conformity than those held by any citizen.

Among the upper classes, especially three or four generations ago, men and women had separate bedrooms. That's just the way it was.

Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you're just mad.

We live in a world where if you're white, an upper-class male of extreme privilege, and able-bodied, and you're nothing that takes you away from that norm, then you're going to have - then the world will not assign you problems because of what you are. That is actually the world we live in.

When I started my career in television, there was a certain type of stories that were told. Who would have thought that one day I would get a chance to make a film on a story that is based on nothing, just a slap - a habit or practice that has been normalized for so long that if the woman gets upset over it, society says she is 'over-reacting.'

An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.

It's the fashion, I tell you: big, tall women going out with tiny, tiny men.

If the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

I do think that this whole area of cyber is something that at an international level we have to work on and develop frameworks and international norms so that we don't see a cyber arms race.

I feel like a part of my role being a musician and part of why I want to be a musician is to show women an alternative to sort of the cultural norms, the stereotypes of what we're supposed to be, demure and quiet and motherly.

People are less likely to think it's immoral to walk away from their home if they know others who have done so. And if enough people do it, the stigma begins to erode.

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.

The two basic social identities were Normal and Greaser; although a few sophisticated girls wore peace signs, hippies didn't exist, and while a seminal punk band, Iggy and the Stooges, was playing in nearby Ann Arbor, punk didn't exist yet, either.

I know women that act queeny, I know men that are straight that act queeny, and I know gay men that act queeny... To me, those are people who think the rules don't apply to them.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." —J. Krishnamurti

The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.

The biggest mistake you can make is to accept the norms of your time.' Not accepting norms is where you innovate, whether it's with technology, with books, with anything. So, not accepting the norm is the secret to really big success and changing the world.