Social Norm Quotes

#1. In our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#2. The researchers argued that an orderly environment fosters a sense of responsibility not so much by deterrence (since Groningen police rarely penalize litterers) as by the signaling of a social norm: This is the kind of place where people obey the rules.

Steven Pinker

#3. Once you break the social norm and create a new social norm, all of a sudden it can stay with us for a long time.

Dan Ariely

#4. Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts.

Brigid Schulte

#5. Ultimately, it's a really brave thing to do what makes you happy as opposed to what the norm, or the social norm is, and that's a very important thing for people to remember, especially young women.

Mia Wasikowska

#6. I don't actually believe that the present social norm is some sort of eternal truth.

Stephen Colbert

#7. People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Mark Zuckerberg

#8. You are a deviant from the social norm!"
"Is that an insult or a diagnosis?

Roger Zelazny

#9. 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

#10. To cooperate, people must not only trust one another to do so, they also have to coordinate on a social norm that everyone understands. That is why it's a lot easier to destroy a society than to build it.

Partha Dasgupta

#11. At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

Sean Parker

#12. When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.

Stevie Nicks

#13. I love to tell stories and I love to work with directors and I think I write really visually, which I think directors like, and I love making movies, so I found something that I'm good at and I'm really happy doing.

John Orloff

#14. Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks.

Jim Ryun

#15. You marry out of free will. If I marry, it will be from a personal choice, not some social compulsion or norm.

Sonam Kapoor

#16. I don't wait for inspiration. Writing is my job.

Gail Carson Levine

#17. There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause

T. S. Eliot

#18. I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.

Brent Runyon

#19. I've been asked a lot why didn't 'Ruined' go to Broadway. It was the most successful play that Manhattan Theatre Club has ever had in that particular space, and yet we couldn't find a home on Broadway.

Lynn Nottage

#20. Death flies because it is the modern way of things but doesn't particularly enjoy it, except for occasionally, when he rides up front with the pilot.

Claire North

#21. Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts.

Norm Coleman

#22. We're in a world where every single movie, if it has a woman in it, is usually wrapped around the woman wanting to be liked in some way, either in her life, or she's young, she's an ingenue, she's a hero, she's the lover of somebody, she's the grandmother, she's a chef.

Anne Heche

#23. I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.

Tony Judt

#24. Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.

Norm Coleman

#25. An elaborate system of etiquette and social standards flowered around the home phone: how long a child might be allowed to stay on the phone, how late one could call without being impolite, and of course, the dread implications of a late night call which violated that norm.

John Battelle

#26. In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.

Storm Jameson

#27. And we're not talking mild snoring, either. Imagine being chained to the floor of a cave, with the tide crashing in, louder, louder, louder -

Steven Erikson