Norms Quotes

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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

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

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

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

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

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

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly.

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

Complex things oftentimes disrupt social norms.

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

When your ideas shatter established thought, expect blowback.

The human has not one but two births – first, when a person is born from the mother’s womb, and second, when that person rises from the socio-culturally imposed cocoon of prejudices and ignorance.

Any human action that goes against what is ordinary, is deemed as an anomaly.

A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.

My silence never means I don’t have nothing to talk, but it was important who were audiences and what was the topic.

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

I take it as a compliment when somebody calls me crazy. I would be offended if I was one of the sheeple, one of the sleepwalkers in the matrix or part of the collective hallucination we call 'normal

..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?

Riding in a carriage without an escort is modern. But traveling out and about unescorted is unheard of.

No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.

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

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.

I love social media. I love the connectivity it provides, the creativity it allows, and the breathtaking wealth of information we all have at our fingertips because of it.

All the men’s clothes she wore just called attention to how much of a girl she was.

I am a habitual rule-breaker

I don't trust anybody who isn't a little bit neurotic

Truth will keep on telling the truthLies will lie to be more uncouthNo more rainbow after the stormNowhere to escape leaving the norm

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.

Ignorance binds people tighter than culture.

You are responsible for everything you TWEET and RETWEET.

What is natural, needs to be looked upon, scrutinized and reshaped by each generation of the world, to make it compatible with the path of progress of a civilized society.

I always think the opening moments of a party are the hardest, before everyone has had enough to drink.

Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel.

The culture were live in ripples through our daily lives, sending messages about what is considered "normal" and healthy by society.

The problem with the ‘herd’ is that our voice is never ‘heard’.

Public condemnation goes a long way in establishing what is and what is not acceptable in a society. The public good will prevail if the public demands it.

We are poor indeed if we are only sane.

A nation with a thousand awakened citizens and a corrupt leader, is much more alive than a nation with an awakened leader and a thousand corrupt citizens.

All social interactions require some loss of freedom.

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

With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.

What is in the minds of the majority the society is unmindful of.