Quotes About Norms

Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.

In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.

Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the streets. And the attitude to having a fling with a girl, or whatever, was quite different then.

There's so many strict ideas and rules, whether it's from religion or it's just generations and generations.

We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.

Our actions, behavior, speech and for that matter anything that we do should strictly comply with our culture.

Everyone says 'Anna Karenina' is about individual desire going against society, but I actually think the opposite is stronger: the way societal forces limit the expression of the individual.

The fact that natural-law theorists derive from the very nature of man a fixed structure of law independent of time and place, or of habit or authority or group norms, makes that law a mighty force for radical change.

We're often too entrenched in existing structures and are so primed to think that if we grew up with the values and the norms, they have to be correct.

I've struggled with gender norms my whole life, always feeling like I wasn't black-and-white; I was in this gray area, and gray areas really scare people because you can't define them.

I am a firm believer in open justice, and an opponent of closed justice in any normal circumstances. But I am also an opponent of legal purism, and have no time for institutionalised mythmaking - whether from the authoritarian right or the liberal left.

You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?'

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

When we speak of institutions, economists mean more than just organizations. We mean conventions, even rules, about how things are done.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

There is a misconception in our society that only women have to follow the norms of wearing a mangalsutra after marriage. Actually there are a few ornaments which even men are expected to wear after marriage.

Even though I did things which were not in accordance with the society's norms, deep down, I am an orthodox woman.

Executive pay has skyrocketed for many reasons - including the prevalence of overly cozy boards and changing cultural norms about pay - but increasing scale, competition, and innovation have all played major roles.

They weren't bad guys, just products of a society run by men and infused with rules to leave everyone sexually frustrated. Even in marriage sex in India is often just a brief, clumsy fumble in the dark, trying not to wake up grandma who's sleeping in the same bed.  

Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public.

Cultural Values Determine Behavior.

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

A paradigm is a constellation of concepts and values shared by a community of people.

When people self-identify and publicly declare their outlook on conflict, they become much more open to adjusting it to whatever team norms need to be established.