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Quotes About Norms

Car la catégorie de sexe est le produit de la société hétérosexuelle qui impose aux femmes l'obligation absolue de la reproduction de "l'espèce", c'est-à-dire, de la reproduction de la société hétérosexuelle
~ Monique Wittig
Does it really matter what these affectionate people do-- so long as they dont do it in the streets and frighten the horses
~ Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Upbringing is the binary code of the program of the system of society.
~ Unknown
Culture is dependent upon the society.
~ Unknown
At the individual level, the great controlling myth of our time has been the belief that within each of us there is a real, inner, private 'self', long buried beneath layers of socialization and attempted cultural and religious control, and needing to be rediscovered if we are to live authentic lives. When we 'discover' this 'true authentic self' , we must do whatever it dictates, even if it means ignoring the norms of the 'unenlightened' society all around us.
~ Unknown
Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.
~ Nalini Singh
One of the first things Vincent explained to Norma was that there was a certain freedom of language in the Village that mustn't shock her. It wasn't vulgar. 'So we sat darning socks on Waverly Place and practiced the use of profanity as we stitched. Needle in, shit. Needle out, piss. Needle in, fuck. Needle out, cunt. Until we were easy with the words.
~ Nancy Milford
The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.
~ Nancy Pearcey
She had difficulty accepting adultery despite its prevalence among high-born men of the era.
~ Nancy Rubin Stuart
The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.
~ Naomi Wolf
sexual access to the woman is formalized through a public ceremony
~ Natalie Angier
Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.
~ Natan Sharansky
It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service.
~ Neil Cavuto
Es de sentido común que un sistema legal inmoral e injusto sólo puede engendrar desprecio hacia sus normas y sus leyes. Llegamos
~ Nelson Mandela
Eu acho o seguinte: a mulher deve casar... O homem, não. —
~ Nelson Rodrigues
Do not light candles in shops. That is an invisible rule. An invisible rule is a rule that no one tells you about until you break it, and then everyone gets cross and tells you shouldn't have broken the rule, even though they did not tell you the rule, it is always a very important rule.
~ Unknown
universal features shared by all musics. The very word 'universal' should put us on our guard: as the postcolonial scholar Homi Bhabha says, 'universalism…masks ethnocentric norms, values, and interests'.
~ Unknown
This phenomenon, called guimai funu, exists on a vast
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign, but in the real world, it isn't.
~ Nick Hornby
Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign, but in the real world, it isn't.
~ Nick Hornby
Between the anarchy of instincts and the tyranny of norms there extends the fleeting and pure territory of human perfection.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Science deceives us in three ways: by turning its propositions into norms, by disclosing its results rather than its methods, by ignoring its epistemological limitations.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Alle Welt ist heute links. Welche Erleichterung!
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Between animal and man there is no barrier but a palisade of taboos.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila