Quotes About Norms

Stories can elicit compassion on a case-by-case basis, but they can also lead us to question our moral principles and our habits of behavior. 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').

Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.

By using priming, defaults, commitments, and norms in your own life, you can become a whole lot happier without actually having to think very hard at all about becoming happier. You will be happier by design.

to prime yourself to act differently, the defaults you set up, the commitments you make, and the norms of those you surround yourself with, as well as using these elements to alter your habits.

Most importantly, Enki was the custodian of the 'Me', perhaps pronounced something like Meh, an untranslatable Sumerian expression which the great Assyriologist Samuel Noah Kramer explained as the 'fundamental, unalterable, comprehensive assortment of powers and duties, norms and standards, rules and regulations, relating to… civilized life'.

Society's rules don't always work. They're limited by human frailty.

There must have been a time, before Internet porn, when there wasn't a script. Nowadays, everybody knows exactly how sex is supposed to go.

group identity essentially means rules, and therefore security. Every group is concerned with regulating jouissance

Nas cidades humanas a liberdade é proibida. O ser humano tem que andar sempre vestido, documentado, calçado. Por andar sem rumo, a polícia prende por vadiagem, como se alguém conhecesse de facto o rumo de cada passo. Por que é que tem de se andar num rumo exato se todos os lugares são lugares para andar? Por que é que tenho que caminhar a horas certas se todas as horas são horas para caminhar?

We decide to move far enough to the edge of the culture to see it clearly. What is the norm and normal does not serve us well. Many of us have tried hard to live a "normal" life, and how is it going?

By 1957 97% of all marriageable men and women were married, and if they cared to have a social life, they stayed that way.