Quotes About Norms

Die Aristokraten sind die normalen; die Demokraten die Fehlgeburten der Geschichte.

Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?

It is indeed the duty of historians to stress the contrast between the standards of the past and the standards of the present. Some fulfil that duty on purpose, others by accident.

It is not uncommon for textbooks on language to have sections on the relationship 'between' language and society, as if these were two independent entities which just happen to come into contact occasionally. My view is that there is not an external relationship 'between' language and society, but an internal and dialectical relationship.

For the "new democracies" in Eastern Europe, meeting this standard "would be commensurate with their passage from totalitarianism to democratic states." Eizenstat is a senior US government official and a prominent supporter of Israel. Yet, judging by the respective claims of Native Americans and Palestinians, neither the US nor Israel has yet made the transition.85

Why extol the idea of changing one's sex while simultaneously denigrating the idea of changing one's race?

I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.

It is quite likely that a medieval European would decry our own culture in such terms for its failure to venerate the Blessed Virgin with sufficient fervor. Indeed, a wellbred Aztec would doubtless find us odd and emotionally stunted in our deplorable lack of enthusiasm for massive orgies of human sacrifice. We must therefore ask, in good cultural relativist fashion, whether Kellert is merely glorifying his own intense prejudices by describing them as human universals.

Nina said, "Have regular facial expressions." That was a command from their inventory of facetious devices they used to josh one another out of bad moods.

The primary function of education is to make one maladjusted to ordinary society.

He wasn't a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.

Bez wiary jeste?my jak zwierz?ta. Jak bestie (...) Tylko chrze?cija?stwo chroni nas przed rzuceniem si? sobie do garde?. (...) Cz?owiek jest istot? z gruntu z?? i nieobyczajn?. Jest zbudowany z instynktów, amoralny z natury. Chrze?cija?stwo uczyni?o nas lud?mi i gdy tylko znikn? jego normy, zostaniemy z niczym, b?dzie rz?dzi? czysty nihilizm.

My own view is that if we want to establish intellectually robust norms for health policies it would be preferable to start from a systematic account of obligations rather than of rights.

The idea of individual freedom and the ability to make choices without external constraints has been the cornerstone of many democratic societies. However, the concept of liberty is not without its challenges, and it is essential to strike a balance between individual liberty and societal norms.

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

Instead of seeing sickness as a problem, something to correct, we accept it as a fact of life. We've all agreed to this arbitrary set of rules that says sickness can't be escaped, illness is natural. Most

It quickly becomes clear that having a child in France doesn't require choosing a parenting philsophy.

Gathering up all the stories on the continuum...I am inclined to think that we should stop calling nonmonogamy a marital problem and call it a marital culture instead.

Of course it doesn't make sense." Lady Wendall said. "The rules of society rarely do.

Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.

According to the "Cult of True Womanhood," a popular phrase during those years, a true woman possessed four cardinal virtues: piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity.

La etiqueta es un puñado de normas que la gente utiliza para poder ser grosera en público con los demás.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

As the psychologist Steven Pinker puts it, "Exposure to worlds that can be seen only through the eyes of a foreigner, an explorer, or a historian can turn an unquestioned norm ('That's the way it's done') into an explicit observation ('That's what our tribe happens to do now')." This is the point that Herodotus was making when he told the story of the Greeks and the Indians.