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We are leashed by societal norms, defined by our willingness to conform, but limited only by our imagination. — Michael Holbrook

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms. — Anthony Storr

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

People are willing to work free, and they are willing to work for a reasonable wage; but offer them just a small payment and they will walk away. — Dan Ariely

The purpose of setting communication principles is to build an effective digital workplace where collaboration and sharing are the norms. — Pearl Zhu

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

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic. — Robert Musil

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

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn't exist. — Fernando Pessoa

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

What is in the minds of the majority the society is unmindful of. — Amit Abraham

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

Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms. — Niall Ferguson

I became a new person; sucked into the neutrality of the abyss, comforted by social norms, and set free from the burden of individuality. — Joss Sheldon

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself? — Michel Foucault

MONEY, AS IT turns out, is very often the most expensive way to motivate people. Social norms are not only cheaper, but often more effective as well. — Dan Ariely

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms. — Jackson Katz

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings. — John Ortberg

It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds. — Pawan Mishra

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

I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity. — Earle Brown

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

Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt or remorse. — Jon Ronson

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

Secret of man's Mortality; Man has transformed from immortal to become a mere mortal being all because of our mental love for sex and evil. — Auliq Ice

System 1 represents sets by averages, norms, and prototypes, not by sums. Each — Daniel Kahneman

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

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that. — Max Cannon

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

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation. — Virginia Woolf

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself. — Robert M. Pirsig

When your ideas shatter established thought, expect blowback. — Tim Fargo

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

Low-income Americans' potential for mobility is often impaired by family breakdown, cultural dysfunction, and the polarization of norms — Yuval Levin

Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. — Marlene Dietrich

With genius, as with beauty
all, well almost all, is forgiven. — Susan Sontag

..If not for the influence of Humans, I would not be Human. Shouldn't it be concerning that the quality of such examples continues to dwindle? — J. Devau

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

Males have been groomed since birth, according to the specifications of a sick and perverse society, to become instruments of war. — Bryant McGill

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be. — Julien Smith