Social Mores Quotes

#1. Social mores, he argued, rules of protocol, concepts of rectitude and honor had no objective basis. They were only reflections of public and private fears.

Wade Davis

#2. How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

Karl Kraus

#3. Teaching our children to be well-behaved, good citizens is proper as far as it goes. But we must never mistake this training for Christian nurture or discipline, nor should we mistake their acquiescence to our social mores as true Christian righteousness.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#4. Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness and overpopulation become "abominations," although I'm not sure recycling one's aunt will ever truly catch on.

Jasper Fforde

#5. Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.

Richard Leakey

#6. Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the streets. And the attitude to having a fling with a girl, or whatever, was quite different then.

Robert Harris

#7. You do realise modern social mores exist for a reason?"
"I was hungry, allowances should be made.

Gail Carriger

#8. Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. The immigration issue is about the separation of families, and that is not human, in any country in the world, but especially in the United States. We should not root for a law that separates families.

Demian Bichir

#10. I could probably make more money if I did more commercial projects.

Blake Lively

#11. Style is time's fool. Form is time's student

Stewart Brand

#12. Alaska Dispatch said the disappearance never made it into the Newspapers at the time, and adds, "His vanishing is like all the others, who over the years have turned to ghosts; their disappearances leaving no trace of them at all behind...

Stephen Young

#13. Sometimes evil didn't need an excuse. Sometimes evil just was.

Nenia Campbell