Quotes About Norms

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Though their policies may have shared the same spirit, there were serious differences between Calvin Coolidge and Donald Trump. Coolidge was a model of reticence and comportment. Trump was not. Coolidge stood for the "American" way of doing things and presided over a "normal" government in a "normal" time. Trump stood outside the system, even during the years in which he was president. He and his supporters were not preserving the status quo.

The psychology of men and women in our civilization does not signal an eternal masculine or feminine...We must not...consider the attributes of the woman or the man as natural, but as historical.

We must define 'organism' as everything that has defined norms, an a priori that governs what happens.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

Today's capitalist economic order is a monstrous cosmos, into which the individual is born and which in practice is for him, at least as an individual, simply a given, an immutable shell in which he is obliged to live. It forces on the individual, to the extent that he is caught up in the relationships of the "market," the norms of its economic activity.

I nijedno zlo ne može postati dobro, zato što ga prihvata ve?ina.

Everybody's grown-up, everybody's old, and the normal rules do apply.

The culturally normalized so-called beauty practices of hair straightening and skin bleaching are indicators of this intergenerational syndrome of identity trauma

Must someone be in some sense a member of a human community, trained in its practices and beholden to its norms, in order to have a "self"? Responses to this issue have divided scholars into the individualist school and the collectivist school.

Because Afro-Bahians have refused to give up their heritage, cultural and religious pluralism has managed to prevail over acculturation to European norms.

This ungodly act is simply something that Finns do, like the British and their DIY, or the French and their adultery.

We are often consciously unaware of the culture we live or work in, or of the profound influence it has on our lives.

In an Englishwoman her abruptness would have been viewed as bad manners, but it was normal to afford Americans somewhat greater license.

In an Englishwoman her abruptness would have been viewed as bad manners, but it was normal to afford Americans somewhat greater license. They talked, ate, dressed differently, were even different in bed so Urquhart had been told, although he had no firsthand experience.

is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

The Indian writer Jiddu Krishnamurti has been quoted as saying, "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Particular messages may be especially appropriate to particular churches in their unique historical situations. A persecuted church might need to hear the message to Smyrna or Philadelphia, while a church that has accommodated to the norms of its host culture, especially to its lust for power and its civil religion, needs to hear the message to Pergamum or Laodicea. In fact, Harry Maier proposes that privileged Christians in the West need to read Revelation "as a Laodicean."20

Corren tiempos peligrosos para la democracia. Puede apreciarse dicha amenaza en el crecimiento de la xenofobia y del apoyo popular a figuras autocráticas que ponen a prueba los límites de las normas democráticas. Estas tendencias son preocupantes ya de por sí, pero igual de alarmante es el hecho de que los partidos y los políticos tradicionales comprendan tan poco y tan mal el descontento que está agitando las aguas de la política en todo el mundo.

These two kinds of arguments reverberate through debates about what money should and should not buy. The fairness objection asks about the inequality that market choices may reflect; the corruption objection asks about the attitudes and norms that market relations may damage or dissolve.

When did being single become a disease?

They don't like it when you end things the way you want to and don't wait for the way it's "supposed" to happen. What if suicide is the way it's supposed to happen? Do they ever think of that?

Straight guys don't have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls. Everyone just assumes that they do. But if you're gay, everybody makes this ginormous deal out of it. You practically have to hold a news conference and take out an ad in the newspaper. Why? Just because it's not what most people do? That doesn't seem fair.