Top 84 Quotes About Social Norms
#1. Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
Marlene Dietrich
#2. All the men's clothes she wore just called attention to how much of a girl she was.
Rainbow Rowell
#3. I became a new person; sucked into the neutrality of the abyss, comforted by social norms, and set free from the burden of individuality.
Joss Sheldon
#4. We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be left more vulnerable, other that laziness or callousness in considering what life is like from their point of view.
Steven Pinker
#5. I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand
they only. Know this at last.
Charlotte Bronte
#6. A democratic medical establishment does not alter people's bodies to fit regressive social norms; it advocates for patients by demanding the social body get its act together.
Alice Dreger
#8. In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#9. Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.
Jackson Katz
#10. Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
Virginia Woolf
#11. Technological defeatism - a belief that, since a given technology is here to stay, there's nothing we can do about it other than get on with it and simply adjust our norms - is a persistent feature of social thought about technology. We'll come to pay for it very dearly.
Evgeny Morozov
#12. Sorting through what social conventions we ought to adopt for the Internet is a pretty tricky and complicated topic. I think we are just going to live through a lot of these issues until we discover what social norms make sense.
Vint Cerf
#13. For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
G. Willow Wilson
#14. MONEY, AS IT turns out, is very often the most expensive way to motivate people. Social norms are not only cheaper, but often more effective as well.
Dan Ariely
#15. According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or liberation to act on our desires-it is, rather, liberation from slavery to those desires, from slavery to self.
Robert P. George
#16. After several months in our trio relationship, my husband and I started telling friends about our girlfriend... No one seemed to mind the concept of an occasional three-way fling with a stranger, but the concept of dating a third person was a bit much for polite company.
Victoria Vantoch
#17. During dreaming, we're tuned inward, we experience vivid visual imagery, our conventional logic system is turned down, and social norms are loosened, all of which can lead to making more creative associations than we make when we're awake and our brain is censoring the illogical," she says.
Andrea Rock
#18. introducing market norms into social exchanges, as we have seen, violates the social norms and hurts the relationships. Once this type of mistake has been committed, recovering a social relationship is difficult.
Dan Ariely
#19. Having had virtually no contact with the outside world for the last few weeks, Evan had temporarily forgotten the social norms governing shopping conduct or approaching celebrities in public.
Zack Love
#20. Media has changed the way we interact with one another and what we spend our time doing. Our social norms have changed.
The dangerous part of our social media and technologically saturated world is not its existence but what it distracts us from.
Jen Hatmaker
#21. If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a common set of ethical norms ... such a society will be better able to innovate ... since the high degree of trust will permit a wide variety of social relationships to emerge ...
Francis Fukuyama
#22. Riding in a carriage without an escort is modern. But traveling out and about unescorted is unheard of.
Jordan Stratford
#23. Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.
Andrew Lansley
#24. I find it hilarious when I see 'not alive' fearing death
Mayank Sharma
#25. People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.
Max Cannon
#26. The model of "social order." Briefly, a social order may be defined as the consequence of any set of moral norms that regulates the way in which persons pursue objectives.
Erving Goffman
#27. Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race.
Jonathan Michel Metzl
#28. To misbehave us to denounce the social norms that limit individuals based on who they are. That to make history is to upset patriarchy, a system that is intent on controlling and marginalising others.
Malebo Sephodi
#29. It is a function of entrenched, intergenerational poverty that isolates too many lower-income Americans from even middle-class economic, cultural, and social opportunities and norms.
Yuval Levin
#30. Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?
Christine De Pizan
#31. To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act of permanent rebellion and subversion against social environs.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#32. It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds.
Pawan Mishra
#33. Nothing about his betrothed please him more than her resolute determination to carry to its utmost limit that ritual of ignoring the "unpleasant" in which they had both been brought up.
Edith Wharton
#34. What is natural, needs to be looked upon, scrutinized and reshaped by each generation of the world, to make it compatible with the path of progress of a civilized society.
Abhijit Naskar
#35. In the educated class even social life is a series of aptitude tests; we all must perpetually perform in accordance with the shifting norms of propriety, ever advancing signals of cultivation.
David Brooks
#36. ..If not for the influence of Humans, I would not be Human. Shouldn't it be concerning that the quality of such examples continues to dwindle?
J. Devau
#37. What is in the minds of the majority the society is unmindful of.
Amit Abraham
#38. The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.
Christine De Pizan
#40. Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need a public debate about the moral limits of markets.
Michael J. Sandel
#41. It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#42. I always think the opening moments of a party are the hardest, before everyone has had enough to drink.
Stephanie Clifford
#43. While he rested, she asked, 'What's the difference between natives and outsiders?' 'Natives,' he replied, 'eat indoors and shit outdoors, outsiders eat outdoors and shit indoors.
John Cage
#44. You are one of those courageous people who want to dare to live; and to do so believe you have to explore the depths of yourself, undistracted and unprotected by social conventions and norms.
Sara Maitland
#45. While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.
Thomas Sowell
#46. [W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#47. Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel.
Mark Gough
#48. With genius, as with beauty
all, well almost all, is forgiven.
Susan Sontag
#49. So teach Chizalum that biology is an interesting and fascinating subject, but she should never accept it as justification for any social norm. Because social norms are created by human beings, and there is no social norm that cannot be changed.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#50. The social norms that sustained them were based neither on ingrained instincts nor on personal acquaintances, but rather on belief in shared myths.
Yuval Noah Harari
#52. In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
William Bennett
#53. The culture were live in ripples through our daily lives, sending messages about what is considered "normal" and healthy by society.
Lee Harrington
#54. The right to life of a woman should not be contingent on her obedience of social norms and traditions.A.Prasad(Venkat Seminar )
Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad
#55. I love social media. I love the connectivity it provides, the creativity it allows, and the breathtaking wealth of information we all have at our fingertips because of it.
Galit Breen
#56. Males have been groomed since birth, according to the specifications of a sick and perverse society, to become instruments of war.
Bryant McGill
#57. Secret of man's Mortality; Man has transformed from immortal to become a mere mortal being all because of our mental love for sex and evil.
Auliq Ice
#58. It is the socially determined norms and traditions of gender roles, which must be challenged, and challenged with vigor. In nearly all countries, including America, the truth is that women have a low social status, and are considered inferior.
Bryant McGill
#59. It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#60. Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt or remorse.
Jon Ronson
#61. Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.
Virginia Woolf
#63. The very fact we use the term "cold-blooded" as a synonym for "heartless" should tell you something about the innate bias we primates hold against reptiles. Do not judge other species by your own social norms.
Becky Chambers
#65. People are willing to work free, and they are willing to work for a reasonable wage; but offer them just a small payment and they will walk away.
Dan Ariely
#66. Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy.
Cass Sunstein
#67. I had a lot of anger against the way things 'should be done' - conforming to social norms, ticking boxes to gain acceptance. Frustration at the pointlessness and predictability of smalltalk. Oh and a lot of anger about tea, which the British seem to use to avoid actually saying anything.
Rupert Friend
#68. A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.
Hakan Nesser
#69. Control over consciousness cannot be institutionaliz ed. As soon as it becomes part of a set of social rules and norms, it ceases to be effective in the way it was originally intended to be.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#70. Something I've always written about is social expectations: that the eyes of the community are on you all the time, expecting you to line up with certain social norms, certain behaviours. Whenever you forgot about them, they'd be strongly reiterated to you, in no uncertain terms.
Lynn Coady
#71. If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#72. Stay in the middle of the bell-curve of social norms and follow along, or you will find out the about freedom you never had.
Bryant McGill
#73. Business culture operates differently in different cities around the world. But I don't think it's possible to design one system that incorporates all social norms for networking. Human beings are just too diverse.
Danah Boyd
#74. You can tell a lot about the intellectual and moral progress of a nation's citizens, by the quality and nature of the films they watch.
Abhijit Naskar
#75. Vaccination was, and is, thoroughly infused with our politics, our social values, and our cultural norms. By acknowledging and understanding the divergent reasons why we've vaccinated in the past, however, we just may ensure the continued success of vaccination in the future.
Elena Conis
#77. Even within our culture, there are times when breasts stop being read as bouncy sex balls: when women are breastfeeding, there's pretty wide acceptance of the fact that shouting 'phwoar' is bad form.
Emer O'Toole
#78. We're all teased or pressured into conforming to the all-levelling social norms of mediocrity.
H.M. Forester
#79. I shake my head at my friend. "Not only is they lines, but you know good as I do where them lines be drawn." Aibileen shakes her head. "I used to believe in em. I don't anymore. They in our heads. People like Miss Hilly is always trying to make us believe they there. But they ain't.
Kathryn Stockett
#80. My silence never means I don't have nothing to talk, but it was important who were audiences and what was the topic.
Ali Rezavand Zayeri
#81. Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
Thomas More
#82. Goodwill and reputation are intangibles, but they are the keys to business success. Since they are also inexorably linked to social values, it follows that a change in social norms will have a significant impact on profits.
Noreena Hertz
#83. We've never lived in an environment in which it has been so easy to capture information and share it. That fact that it is digital and easy to transmit exacerbates that. I don't know that we know yet what social norms we wish to adopt.
Vint Cerf
#84. As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
Virginia Woolf
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