Quotes About Norms

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.

Because of our cultural conditioning, we not only think our actions are normal, the way everyone behaves; we also think what we do is right, the way everyone should behave. We therefore regard any behavior that is different from ours as wrong. Naturally, this puts cultural incidents into a whole new light.

You have no idea, in short, that what is normal to you is not also universal, that much of what you think of as human nature is only cultural.

By replacing history with fantasy, the Palestinians have invented a society unlike any other, where hatred trumps bread. They have reared children unlike any other children, removed from ordinary norms and behaviors.

I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.

The bus is unpleasantly full men sitting and girls standing, which seems the usual thing in this part of the world.

Technological defeatism - a belief that, since a given technology is here to stay, there's nothing we can do about it other than get on with it and simply adjust our norms - is a persistent feature of social thought about technology. We'll come to pay for it very dearly.

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

As a country we have more of a political constitution than a legal one, and as such it operates via conventions and precedents.

My generation is so tied up in television, computers, and video games. When we were born, MTV was already there. It was normal.

There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal.

Men are men and women are women. We've tried for tens of thousands of years to lay down hard and fast lines for the sexes to walk upon, and we've failed miserably.

It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be acknowledged, that a secure basis will be attained for tackling interdisciplinary problems, and that the sciences will be mobilized within a higher unity of vocabulary, thought and orientation, in which they will be able to make their quite significant contribution to the solution of fundamental problems.

Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't.

In fact, the word transition seems to me to be used incorrectly. Most people use it to mean going from one identity to another, such as with surgery or the use of hormones. I understand it to mean that the person has the other identity already and the transition involves the perceptions of society aligning with that identity. In this "word flip" it is not the person who is transitioning but society, which is transitioning its perceptions of that person.

Were traditions rational, they'd be procedures.

what we are talking about here is faith in a dramatic convention.

for in contrast to the restrictions imposed on respectable Greek women who only went out of the house as a last resort and even then fully covered, their Egyptian sisters were not only allowed out, but attended market and 'are employed in trade while the men stay at home and do the weaving'. Further unnatural practices meant that Egyptian 'women pass water standing up, men sitting down'

In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it.

You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.

That awkward moment when you see 9 year olds with boyfriends or girlfriends, while you're still single.

As the crapulent major said, A man doesn't need balls in this country, Captain. The women all have their own.

Ne pas aimer les femmes, chez un homme, c'est une attitude. Ne pas aimer les hommes, chez une femme, c'est une pathologie.

No querer a las mujeres, cuando se es hombre, es una actitud. No querer a los hombres, cuando se es mujer, es una patología.