
Top 88 Social Rules Quotes
#1. think about the littler rules. Club rules. Social standards. Values. "The way things are normally done." Opinions, every one. Yet we live our lives as if they're immutable truths.
Johnny B. Truant
#2. Meritocracy is a social arrangement like any other: it is a loose set of rules that can be adapted in order to obscure advantages, all the while justifying them on the basis of collective values. pg. 199
Shamus Rahman Khan
#3. Network etiquette is our participation in groups. Following Netiquette rules is a contribution.
David Chiles
#4. 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
#5. Girls are generally recognized as superior mimics. Those with [Asperger's Syndrome] hold back and observe until they learn the 'rules', then imitate their way through social situations.
Tony Attwood
#6. Netiquette starts at home. Family values are a good frame of reference for netiquette rules.
David Chiles
#7. Mary Daly, author of Beyond God the Father, points out that the model of the universe in which a male God rules the cosmos from outside serves to legitimize male control of social institutions.
Starhawk
#8. The things we sing about are timeless. Political affairs and social situations come and go. But if you're singing about empowerment and not playing by the rules, you can sing about them until you can't sing anymore.
Paul Stanley
#9. Where physical survival was relatively easy, one created rules to make social survival more difficult.
Anne Perry
#10. Without agreement on rank and a certain respect for authority there can be no great sensitivity to social rules, as anyone who has tried to teach simple house rules to a cat will agree.
Frans De Waal
#11. We feel crowded by other people; we feel crowded by social rules; we feel crowded by ourselves, mainly.
Frederick Lenz
#12. Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.
Anne Roiphe
#13. The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary. Wherever possible, he plays his own game within their framework; this makes the fewest waves.
Ernst Junger
#14. It's good netiquette to empathize with others online. It builds strong internet relationships.
David Chiles
#15. These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure foods and safe drugs, Social Security, Medicare and rules that promote competitive markets over monopolies and cartels.
Bill Moyers
#16. Every different social group that I encountered had its different set of rules, so you learn very quickly how to pick up the nuances and change yourself accordingly. When you are not from anywhere, you have to try to find what's universal. You are always trying to fit in.
Julianne Moore
#17. 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
#18. In this new era of social media the rules of the road have changed significantly, yet the basic yearning for true connectivity and love have not.
Matthew Hussey
#19. An important consequence of giving highest priority to the metaphor of Moral Strength is that it rules out any explanations in terms of social forces or social class.
George Lakoff
#20. Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.
Carl Bernstein
#21. Yeah. I do. I think that we have to continue to expand the areas in which we want our kids to be literate. And social media's going to be a part of their lives. And why not? Why not give them a sense of what the rules of the road are?
LeVar Burton
#22. In America the press rules the countrty; it rules its politics, its religion, its social practices.
E. W. Scripps
#23. Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#24. Social Security is meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard and played by the rules and paid into the system grows old in poverty in America.
Chris Christie
#25. Without social cohesion, the human race wouldn't be here: We're not formidable enough to survive without the tactics, rules and strategies that allow people to work together.
Peter Guber
#26. Thou shalt not unfollow someone, merely because they stopped following you.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#27. Your social rules suck, if i wanted to start a conversation on the relevance of solar vs wind energy I will!
Tina J. Richardson
#28. It is never to late to practice proper Netiquette. Start today. Be nice!
David Chiles
#29. In order to have a lasting career you'll need to spend time performing live to build your own audience, as it's not all about social media. Word of mouth still rules.
Eliot Lewis
#31. The rules from those who are politically correct restrict what you can say to or about anything in our daily life. They tell you what to call others and what others can call you.
John Patrick Hickey
#32. Facebook Fun is refined. Reader reviews are rewarding on Goodreads. Retweets are readily available for Twitter teasing. Stay within the Netiquette.
David Chiles
#33. All social groups groups make rules and attempt, at some times and under some circumstances, to enforce them. Social rules define situations and the kinds of behavior appropriate to them, specifying some actions as "right" and forbidding others as "wrong".
Howard S. Becker
#34. Thou shalt not think that thou be a leader, merely because thee be having more than 0 followers.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#35. Weekends welcome warriors for social fun that starts on Friday. Share, Like, comment, and friend. Netiquette
David Chiles
#36. The internet is great because of Netiquette we create. Participate and reciprocate.
David Chiles
#37. When I hear so-called professional journalists ask why we have celebrities speak for us and for the animals, the environment or social causes, I marvel at their denial of the rules of their own trade.
Paul Watson
#38. Maybe we women gravitate toward comedy because it is a socially acceptable way to break rules and a release from our daily life.
Tina Fey
#39. What Americans don't want to admit ... is that not only is there not a contradiction between state regulation and freedom, but in order for us to actually be free in our social interactions, there must be an extremely elaborated network of health, law, institutions, moral rules and so on.
Slavoj Zizek
#40. We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to the State, but obey a high authority within their own bosom; an authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
Abraham Kuyper
#42. Making your own Netiquette is advanced internet use, but it's not that hard. It's all good.
David Chiles
#43. I don't know how to talk to people. Social rules are difficult to understand as they keep changing. I never know what people expect from me.
Tina J. Richardson
#44. Being comfortable with online contact is a central part of netiquette. Stay in your zone.
David Chiles
#45. I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.
Joan Jett
#46. Aggressive and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful, but women who display these same traits often pay a social penalty. Female accomplishments come at a cost.
Sheryl Sandberg
#47. Share content from domains you like because it raises their rank among other websites.
David Chiles
#48. The SEC has actually progressively loosened up the rules and recognized the value of social media, but the goal is always going to be to get information out as broadly as possible as quickly as possible.
Mary Schapiro
#49. The boundary between expert and amateur was an imposed social-cultural "protection" which actually exposed a number of women to a fatal disease, because decaying matter, as the fireman said of fire (cited in the book's final piece, "Torch Song") "ain't got no rules on it."
Laura Mullen
#50. To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of ... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.
Aleksander Kwasniewski
#51. Be Yourself: It is proper netiquette to act as you do in reality on the internet.
David Chiles
#52. In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.
Gloria Estefan
#53. Show your netiquette, to become cyber friends with those you have met, on the internet.
David Chiles
#54. Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of basic principles in economic and social matters.
Hans F. Sennholz
#55. When we become curious about the dissatisfying defaults in our world, we begin to recognize that most of them have social origins: Rules and systems were created by people. And that awareness gives us the courage to contemplate how we can change them. Before
Adam M. Grant
#56. Discuss netiquette.xyz internet rules to follow with friends and family. Use the site as a reference. Set boundaries. Share.
David Chiles
#57. We must know our own roles. We should also know the roles that others play, and the rules such roles follow. In this manner, social harmony is maintained. It is when we overstep our roles, or act without knowing them, that social anarchy ensues.
F. Sionil Jose
#58. Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.
Robert Anton Wilson
#59. I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.
Joni Mitchell
#60. Please, do not take the internet literally because it is data. Life happens. Thank you.
David Chiles
#61. Everyone knows that at the age of 11-12, children have a marked impulse to form themselves into groups and that the respect paid to the rules and regulations of their play constitutes an important feature of this social life.
Jean Piaget
#62. Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.
Robert Silverberg
#63. All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
Karl Marx
#64. Conformity is the biggest enemy of progress. Break those limiting social rules.
Debasish Mridha
#65. It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman's social superiority lies at the root of these rules of conduct.
Humphry Davy
#66. The law of governance, risk-management, and compliance is the body of rules, regulations, and best practices that, individually and collectively, are intended to ensure that organizations are managed effectively and in such a way as to enhance social welfare.
Geoffrey P. Miller
#67. Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.
Hosea Ballou
#68. Pray you never become Miss Grey with her £50,000 and love comes to you without social rules and people's need for approval.
Shannon L. Alder
#69. In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial markets. Worshipping the unfettered freedom of global markets has brought the world to the brink of ruin. We now need social and ecological rules for the market economy.
Sigmar Gabriel
#70. Rules of taste enforce structures of power.
Susan Sontag
#71. We have rules in the house and a sticker chart for my kids to earn technology time. Maybe its because of the world I live in and work, that I don't see much of anything beneficial that comes out of social media for kids. Even though its how they communicate now, so you have to find the fine balance.
Gretchen Carlson
#72. He just loved her in a limited way. Loved her best when she needed help. Loved her best when he could set the boundaries and make the rules. Loved her best when she was a smaller, younger person than he was, with no social power.
E. Lockhart
#73. 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
#74. It's good netiquette to look for every opportunity to compliment others online.
David Chiles
#75. Children's games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of rules - that is to say, a code of laws, a jurisprudence of its own.
Jean Piaget
#76. Netiquette: The social code of network communication. Internet code of conduct based on the Golden Rule. Ethical philosophy of common rules.
David Chiles
#77. Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.
Sara Sheridan
#78. Good updates are nice, as a matter of netiquette. Bad ones are negative.
David Chiles
#79. Netiquette Rules bring us together. Culture creates great experiences. Share.
David Chiles
#80. In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is encouraged and the rules permit it, it is perpetuated, not 'drained.' ... An emotion without social rules of containment and expression is like an egg without a shell: a gooey mess ...
Carol Tavris
#81. A wide range of social, collective phenomena can be made to emerge from the interactions of autonomous agents operating to simple local rules
Robert Axtell
#82. The best opportunities to be nice to others come in the face of adversity. Kindness wins. Reciprocity rules.
David Chiles
#83. Playing by the rules, one does the best he can, irrespective of the social consequences. Whereas in making the rules, people ought to be concerned with the social consequences and not with their personal interests.
George Soros
#84. Through a web of laws, regulations, and informal rules, all of which are powerfully reinforced by social stigma, they are confined to the margins of mainstream society and denied access to the mainstream economy.
Michelle Alexander
#85. To make sense of social epidemics, we must first understand that human communication has its own set of very unusual and counterintuitive rules.
Malcolm Gladwell
#86. It's good netiquette to get to know someone in social media before giving out your phone number.
David Chiles
#87. The Internet," [Judy] Singer said, "is a prosthetic device for people who can't socialize without it." For anyone challenged by language and social rules, a communication system that does not operate in real time is a godsend.
Andrew Solomon
#88. It's good netiquette to provide links in updates. Everyone does not know what you know.
David Chiles
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