Normative Quotes

#1. We are going to need organizations that are culturally equipped to adapt. They must have internal processes that are creative, generative, and productive rather than controlled, confining, and normative. In short, we must UNSHACKLE THE HUMAN BRAIN and exploit its productive potential.

Karl Albrecht

#2. All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is to think or what one is to do. Every prescribed thought has some practical implication; every prescribed act has some theoretical implication.

David Novak

#3. I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.

Jonathan Sacks

#4. Really interesting. I want to ask about the deep true self-experiment and I see two possibilities here. So, one is that what people judge to be the true self is affected by normative considerations,

Anonymous

#5. God speaks to man through the Scriptures, and He does not reveal normative truth except as it is already revealed in the Scriptures themselves. The test of truth must remain not what man experiences today but what the Scriptures have stated long ago.

John F. Walvoord

#6. Normative Economics is like religion without the aesthetics.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. Relationality [is] not only [a] descriptive or historical fact of our formation, but also an ongoing normative dimension of our social and political lives, one in which we are compelled to take stock of our interdependence.

Judith Butler

#8. With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.

Ravi Zacharias

#9. You look concerned." Books turned the wheel to screw down the press. "It's my new normative state," Amaranthe said.

Lindsay Buroker

#10. Collapse begins at this paradoxical point: the reiteration of a metanarrative of heroism and innocence ceases to be essential to sustain global normative structures at the moment its use becomes ubiquitous.

Stephen Hopgood

#11. Normative Christian theology has enshrined a doctrine that obscures the truth in the scriptures. God is in a box and theologians scramble to preserve the box. It appears to be an attempt to rescue God from the shame of a creation-gone-bad.

Leo Hare

#12. If this is true, then neither the past nor the present is normative. It is the canon of Scripture that renders both relative and open to correction.

Michael S. Horton

#13. Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do.

Adam Levine

#14. If the fluidification of forms of behavior required by a developed economy was incompatible with a normative catalog of restrained conduct, it was, however, perfectly suited to a perpetual celebration of the will and the ego.

Michel Houellebecq

#15. We just want to identify the "real" freaks, so we can feel closer to normal. In reality, not a single one of us is so magically normative as to claim the right to separate out the freaks from everyone else. We are all freaks to someone. Maybe even - if we're honest - to ourselves.

Kate Bornstein

#16. Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone.

Bernard Werber

#17. Whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work that will allow 'them' to be more like 'us'..

Peggy McIntosh

#18. It appears likely that there was no normative pattern of church government in the apostolic age, and that the organizational structure of the church is no essential element in the theology of the church.

George Eldon Ladd

#19. One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Torah and still be part of the Church.

David Novak

#20. I believe, that empirically informed approaches to the question have issued in more illuminating answers than the old armchair approaches. But I think that it would be a terrible mistake to give up on addressing normative questions in epistemology.

Hilary Kornblith

#21. Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.

R.C. Sproul

#22. The question is: Which means best advances the regulator's goal, subject to the constraints (whether normative or material) that the regulator must recognize? My

Lawrence Lessig

#23. I have, in some ways, cleaved to stereotypes and even bent rules to make Amanda's trans-ness as unchallenging to normative assumptions as possible.

Meredith Russo

#24. You're not user-friendly. You're too needy. You have no social currency. You're a freak. Without a normative side, you can't get in. That's it. Sorry.

Sarah Schulman

#25. Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment ... In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science.

Milton Friedman

#26. She saw the normative life of the planet, business people crossing streets beneath glass towers, the life of sitting on buses that take you logically to destinations, the unnerved surface of rolling plausibly along.

Don DeLillo

#27. Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.

Dennis Prager

#28. There are things that science as presently conceived does not help us to understand, and which we can see, from the internal features of physical science, that it is not going to explain. They seem to call for a more uncompromisingly mentalistic or even normative form of understanding.

Thomas Nagel

#29. Hetero - normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It's okay to be different. It's okay to stand out for whatever reason. Some people are just born that way and instead of trying to tear them down, learn something new. Be curious and open because maybe that's a pathway out for you, too.

Rose McGowan

#30. The exclusion of those who fail to conform to unspoken normative requirements of the subject.

Judith Butler

#31. All evil, all injustice, all harm that one does to someone else - in sum, all deviation from man's normative nature - in a much more fundamental way and in a far more ultimate sense one does to oneself, and not just metaphorically but literally.

Fazlur Rahman

#32. It is hard to feel safe and comfortable when the only measures for what is safe and comfortable are normative ideas you don't abide by.

Samhita Mukhopadhyay

#33. Normative mind tends to be naive.

Toba Beta

#34. America will nurture a new Muslim - one who can believe in Muhammad and the Quran but who abandons belief in a Shariah-based state and affirms the primary American value of individual liberty, which has not been a normative Islamic value.

Dennis Prager