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We are leashed by societal norms, defined by our willingness to conform, but limited only by our imagination.
— Michael Holbrook
Semmelweis reflex: The tendency to reject new evidence or new knowledge because it contradicts established norms, beliefs or paradigms
— Ignaz Semmelweis
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
— Carl Bernstein
Men are different; sheep are all alike.
— Raheel Farooq
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
I'm not always interested in Hollywood norms and boy-next-door kind of characters.
— Kelly Masterson
The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving.
— David Harsanyi
We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change.
— Atul Gawande
We are born into our World, educated to adjust to it according to the dominant and accepted norms and pretty much left to sink or swim!
— Abha Maryada Banerjee
Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods.
— Dmitry Medvedev
Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.
— Paul Collier
The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.
— Pope Benedict XVI
No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
— Thomas Sowell
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
The social organization makes man dependent on one another.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.
— Hendrik Hertzberg
Riding in a carriage without an escort is modern. But traveling out and about unescorted is unheard of.
— Jordan Stratford
Rules broken today become norms tomorrow.
— Bill Gates
I find it hilarious when I see 'not alive' fearing death
— Mayank Sharma
Advertising is about norms and values, aspirations and prejudices. It is about culture.
— Anil Ambani
Ignorance binds people tighter than culture.
— Raheel Farooq
Women with short hair are really sexy. There's something liberating about freeing yourself from the norms,
— Amber Valletta
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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
Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.
— Guo Moruo
A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.
— Hakan Nesser
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
— John Ortberg
The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.
— Ashly Lorenzana
So, what's the first step to changing norms? It's breaking the code of silence around the problem that always sustains the status quo.
— Kerry Patterson
Guys, you don't have to act "manly" to be considered a man; you are a man, so just be yourself. You don't have to prove your masculinity to anyone.
— Miya Yamanouchi
Religion is a system of human norms and values that is founded on belief in a superhuman order.
— Yuval Noah Harari
Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.
— Nick Harkaway
All the men's clothes she wore just called attention to how much of a girl she was.
— Rainbow Rowell
As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony.
— Pankaj Mishra
Is deviation from the locally approved norms always and everywhere to be taken as disease?
— Bernard Wolfe
You must bow on your knees at all times before the ruling-class norms to show you are submissive.
— Bryant McGill
We talk about normal, and for legal and practical reasons set a bar for expected societal norms. But can any of us really claim normality?" Rese
— Kristen Heitzmann
The culture were live in ripples through our daily lives, sending messages about what is considered "normal" and healthy by society.
— Lee Harrington
I always think the opening moments of a party are the hardest, before everyone has had enough to drink.
— Stephanie Clifford
Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freaks become norms, and norms become extinct. Monster by monster, evolution advanced
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Training a reliable military force that adheres to Western norms and standards is the work of a generation, not a few months.
— David Ignatius
Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.
— Andrew Lansley
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
— Virginia Woolf
Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
— William Bennett
I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways.
— Carla H. Krueger
Body sizes can be remarkable for their variations from accepted norms, but still explain almost nothing about the lives led inside those bodies.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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
The wealthy and the powerful aren't just wealthy and powerful; they follow a different set of norms and mores.
— J.D. Vance
Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
— Werner Herzog
We're all teased or pressured into conforming to the all-levelling social norms of mediocrity.
— H.M. Forester
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
— Lauren Groff
Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
tax is always more than just a tax: it is also a way of defining norms and categories and imposing a legal framework on economic activity.
— Thomas Piketty
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
When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.
— Robert M. Pirsig
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
We are poor indeed if we are only sane.
— D.W. Winnicott
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
Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
— Marlene Dietrich
The industry must adhere to certain consumer protection norms if the Internet is to remain an open platform for innovation.
— Michael K. Powell
They were dressed in black, silent, and dry-eyed, as befits the norms of sadness in a country accustomed to the dignity of grief
— Isabel Allende
In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased.
— Vladimir Putin
Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel.
— Mark Gough
Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.
— Werner Herzog
