Socially Acceptable Quotes

#1. Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.

Jacque Fresco

#2. Funny how addiction was socially acceptable - even a status symbol - when it made people extroverts rather than introverts

Stacia Kane

#3. Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of working-class people become so socially acceptable?' His timely answers combine wit, left-wing politics and outrage.

Dwight Garner

#4. You do need an outlet to release all of those fears. You build it up and then, when you go to a movie theater, it's the last place that it's socially acceptable to be terrified. It's saying that, for the next 90 minutes, you're allowed to be afraid and you're not a coward for feeling that way.

Eli Roth

#5. Anyone who falls in love is a freak. Its like a socially acceptable form of insanity.

Amy Adams

#6. As we get older, we tend to think it is less OK to be vulnerable and to feel what we feel. It's kind of bull. We all still feel things pretty deeply. It just becomes less socially acceptable to express that.

Gayle Forman

#7. Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I knew what it was to feel different, to feel alienated and to feel not like everyone else. But the very same thing that made me monstrous to some people also empowered me and made me who I was.

John Logan

#8. tantrum. I don't want to have a baby but sometimes I want to be a baby because it's socially acceptable for them to cry and scream in public.

Jen Kirkman

#9. I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of horror movies out there.

Stephen King

#10. I couldn't quite believe how much I seriously loved Aled Last, even if it wasn't in the ideal way that would make it socially acceptable for us to live together until we die.

Alice Oseman

#11. I think one of the reasons I liked him so much was that he had more faults than the usual, socially acceptable Trill." - Benjamin Sisko "Dax

Marco Palmieri

#12. Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.

Amy Adams

#13. Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

Richard Carlson

#14. Sometimes I feel like a windup doll, like I have to reach behind and turn my golden key to produce a greeting, a laugh, whatever the socially acceptable reaction should be.

Jessica Knoll

#15. Dragnets that indiscriminately sweep up personal data fall squarely into the gray area between what is legal and what is socially acceptable.

Julia Angwin

#16. I don't know when it became socially acceptable to be late.

Ellen DeGeneres

#17. I think it's a rule that it's socially acceptable to wet yourself when aliens enter your mind for the first time. If it wasn't already, it is now.

Orson Scott Card

#18. I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.

David Levithan

#19. Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. It's just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.

Richard Foster

#20. Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting. It is the last socially acceptable prejudice.

Bernice Sandler

#21. Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask.

Deepak Chopra

#22. Reading is a socially acceptable form of hallucination.

Laura Furman

#23. In civilized societies, we spend our lifetimes trying to become what is socially acceptable. We're dark and we're light. We all have both sides to us.

Robert De Niro

#24. No time!" I called. There was, alas, all the time in the world now, but it wasn't socially acceptable to say, "No patience!

Gillian Roberts

#25. What's great about games in particular is that it's a socially acceptable way for adults to imagine.

Kim Swift

#26. I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

Gabriel Iglesias

#27. I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.

Will Arnett

#28. Beware: don't choose the convenient, the comfortable, the respectable, the socially acceptable. Choose something that rings a bell in your heart.

Rajneesh

#29. Nobody feels ashamed of going to the dentist; it's socially appropriate to take care of your teeth, even preventively. In short, it's more normal to take care of our dental health than our mental health . . . it's more acceptable to care for our mouths than our minds.

Joe Dilley

#30. I think more things are becoming socially acceptable. I think that just by having more media, whether that's TV or Internet, we're able to see more things.

Brie Larson

#31. I felt accepted for who I was. I didn't have to sort the words in my head first, making sure they were socially acceptable before I said them. I groped around for a word that fit. Peace. I felt peaceful.

Sharon Biggs Waller

#32. 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

#33. I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

Todd Barry

#34. Beauty shouldn't be about changing yourself to achieve an ideal or be more socially acceptable. Real beauty, the interesting, truly pleasing kind, is about honoring the beauty within you and without you. It's about knowing that someone else's definition of pretty has no hold over you.

Golda Poretsky

#35. People laugh because they're nervous, or to cover up tension, or to flirt, or because there's some instant applause meter in their head telling them that it's the socially acceptable thing to do. Genuine laughter, I don't even think that happens daily.

Lindsey Leavitt

#36. Bluie, the blue stuffed bear I'd had since I was, like, one - back when it was socially acceptable to name one's friends after their hue.

John Green

#37. The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.

Taiye Selasi

#38. You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.

A. Whitney Brown

#39. I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly ignorant of math, whereas it is a shameful thing to be illiterate.

Jennifer Ouellette

#40. I had dreams. And I had to pursue them; otherwise my soul would have shriveled. The hardest part was allowing myself to want something other than what was socially acceptable, telling myself to go after it, then actually doing it.

Connor Franta

#41. I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly.

Jo Brand

#42. The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Elfriede Jelinek

#43. Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.

Albert Bandura

#44. I still have to remind myself to brush my hair and look socially acceptable.

Holland Roden

#45. The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary.

Alexandra Harney

#46. It was easier for girls. They could say This hurts, or I don't like how this feels, and have the complaint be socially acceptable. Boys, though, didn't speak that language. They didn't learn it as children and they didn't manage to pick it up as adults, either.

Jodi Picoult

#47. Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if I was playing a Gameboy hour after hour, no one would be on my case. In my social circle, blowing up space monsters is socially acceptable in a way that American Pastoral isn't.

Nick Hornby

#48. Social networks are so full of wasted time - they could be compared to a waste disposal system. Flush, before you go and waste no time to go.

Will Advise

#49. Numerically speaking, half the population cannot be a minority. Yet when it comes to women, the numbers plainly show that the mathematically impossible is the socially acceptable.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#50. The woman he couldn't ethically fuck, he wanted to fuck six ways to Sunday without a single socially acceptable barrier between them.

Elizabeth Finn

#51. It's no longer socially acceptable to make bigoted statements and racist remarks. Some people are having an awful time with that: 'I didn't know anybody would be offended!' Well, where have you been? I remember when people got away with it and they don't anymore. That's fabulous.

Judith Martin

#52. I hate the word fine. It is descriptive of nothing. Socially acceptable filler with no true meaning. It's what you say when you are checking your feelings, unwilling or unable to let yourself be too happy or too sad. Fine. It's an emotional bookmark. A pause until you can continue the story.

Emme Burton

#53. Widowhood conferred a mystery and status divorce lacked. The difference between returning World War II and Vietnam veterans. Both had been through a war, but a judgmental public conferred glory only on those who had been victimized in a socially acceptable manner.

Nevada Barr

#54. Death by drink driving is the only socially acceptable form of homicide.

Candy Lightner

#55. Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

E.L. Doctorow

#56. I had to deal with being somewhat of an outcast because it's not socially acceptable to be a struggling musician. There have been times where I've felt sorry for the person I was dating. I felt she deserved better.

Taylor Hicks

#57. I've been benefited from a dictionary definition I found that reads: "Rationalization is giving a socially acceptable reason for socially unacceptable behavior, and socially unacceptable behavior is a form of insanity.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#58. Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Sydney J. Harris

#59. I could go on a long rant about how much I despise e-mail. I wish it was more socially acceptable to ignore people.

Steve Huffman

#60. Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

Osbert Lancaster

#61. To sublime: to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state.
To sublimate: to divert the expression of an instinctual desire or impulse from its primitive form to one that is considered more socially or culturally acceptable.
Sublime: of outstanding spiritual, intellectual, or moral worth.

Rachel Klein

#62. Writing books is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.

Paulo Coelho

#63. Except for Carrie Bradshaw's in the opening credits of 'Sex and the City,' I don't know if the tutu has ever really been trendy, but I want to wear one. I want to dance around in it, and I want that to be socially acceptable.

Devin Kelley

#64. Our ideas of self are fed to us by corporate game artists who wear us down with their generic mantras of compliance until we identify with a socially acceptable idea of self.

Jeff Brown

#65. I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people.

Herman Cain

#66. There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

Katharine Whitehorn

#67. Arrogance is perhaps the most socially acceptable form of sin in the church today. In this culture of abundance, one of the only ways Satan can keep Christians neutralized is to wrap us up in pride. Conceit slips in like drafts of cold air in the winter. We don't see it, but outsiders can sense it.

David Kinnaman

#68. JOIN THE CIRCUS OF CHAOS ... juggling, stilt walking, and other skills for socially acceptable procrastination.

Pat Murphy

#69. Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.

Judith Wright

#70. She doesn't know," Cate said. "Kellen is a secret. I didn't think my mother would approve."
"Why wouldn't your mother approve?" Pugg asked.
"It's my job," Kellen said. "I kill people. It pays well, but it's not universally socially acceptable.

Janet Evanovich

#71. I engage in subtle stalking. That's entirely different and perfectly socially acceptable.

Siobhan Davis

#72. Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside.

George Robinson

#73. Fantasy and drama appeal to us. They are socially acceptable and make you feel good about yourself. Moreover, you get rewarded for being cleverly ignorant.

Saurabh Sharma

#74. I wish it were socially acceptable to brandish a knife.

Caroline Kepnes

#75. Authenticity is an "owning" of all experience, including emotions and thoughts that are not socially acceptable.

Mary Pipher

#76. Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.

George Carlin

#77. I don't have friends. I talk to people when I have to. I smile. I do the socially acceptable thing and tolerate people when I'm at work. But no one gets in my personal space. I don't need anybody!

Stevie J. Cole

#78. Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every museum of our time is a child of the Guggenheim.

Paul Goldberger

#79. She was a tabula rasa when it came to appropriate behavior. To say Lucy was difficult is like saying lightening is hazardous. It's a statement of fact that will always be a given.

Patricia Cornwell

#80. It's not anti-semitic to criticize Israel, but it's the most socially acceptable pastime of anti-semites.

Annoymous

#81. Social stability comes at the price of wearing a mask, of learning to distance ourselves from our unique nature, from our personal desires, needs, and feelings; instead, we embrace a socially acceptable self.

Frederic Laloux

#82. I've made my life's work spotting assholes. And you know, I think it's harder now than ever before because there's so many socially acceptable ways to exhibit a pathological lack of empathy.

Merrill Markoe