Quotes About Norms

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

Socially, the issue of men's weight is simply not a big deal.

I think it's kind of written in stone that men are supposed to have strong feelings about age, but I've never really thought about it.

I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

The time we are living in has its own conditions, peculiarities and standards

Since when has bringing stolen money to churches for Pastor's blessings become a Nigerian norm?

I'm often a crier and many things make me cry. I come from a crying family - my mother cries, my grandma used to cry. It was never shameful to cry. My father never told me men don't cry.

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

None of us have true freedom because every one of us has to conform.

Conformity rules society not wisdom or simplicity.

Most of us are brainwashed by our society so we become the reflection of that society.

The morality of a society is often dangerous and very unethical.

In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist.

I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways.

Most often we call a person intelligent when they learn to conform to the societal norm. Are they wise?

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.

The fact of the matter is that, in waging a scorched earth, no-holds-barred war of 'Resistance' against this Administration, it is the Left that is engaged in the systematic shredding of norms and the undermining of the rule of law. This highlights a basic disadvantage that conservatives have always had in contesting the political issues of the day. It was adverted to by the old, curmudgeonly Federalist, Fisher Ames, in an essay during the early years of the Republic.

culture – the collectively shared meaning

In the educated class even social life is a series of aptitude tests; we all must perpetually perform in accordance with the shifting norms of propriety, ever advancing signals of cultivation.