Quotes About Norms

En realidad, las normas no cambian, siempre se trata de quién se carga al otro primero. Solo que esta vez estuvimos en el buen lado del cañón. La diferencia es considerable.

No one ever asks what causes heterosexuality because no one is interested in stopping it

Theory and practice may not coincide. A Sikh girl may find her life restricted more than her brother's even though Sikh teaching is one of gender equality.

Sorry, my dear, one mustn't be bohemian!

Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.

It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.

As a self-imposed challenge, repressive puritanism is fine with me, but it is Titoism, Drenka, inhuman Titoism, when it seeks to impose its norms on others by self-righteously suppressing the satanic side of sex.

A woman trying to function like a man is as ridiculous as a man trying to be like a woman. A unisex society is a senseless society—a society dangerously out of order.

If it became customary to go out into the street stark naked I should not be the first nor the last to conform.

When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.

What makes you the establishment is if you buy into it.

I think the problem today is that there is no social etiquette.

an archer, the moment he thinks he's experienced, is lost; every lion we encounter in our brief life is different from every other lion; woe to us if we stop to make comparisons, to deduce our movements from norms and premises.

half-respected conventions spread insecurity and incoherence of behavior rather than freedom and frankness.

Only when we stop looking at male roles and forms of power as the norm and begin to look at female arrangements and perceive them as equally valid and significant - though perhaps different in form - can we see how male and female roles are intertwined, and begin to understand how human societies operate.

Even in the West, moreover, although the ethical ideal has been absolute monogamy, the legal norm has been merely relative monogamy, which is also known as successive polygamy.

Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.

The conformist is not born. He is made. I believe the brainwashing process begins in the schools and colleges.

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

In the middle, we relax our standards, perhaps because others relax their assessments

As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.

They say the nail that sticks out gets hammered down

Children need to understand the way the world works: what's permissible and what's not.

In that world, 'villain' can simply be a label given to someone who doesn't conform. There are these unwritten rules in Bachelor Nation... I never follow those rules.