“While he rested, she asked, 'What's the difference between natives and outsiders?' 'Natives,' he replied, 'eat indoors and shit outdoors, outsiders eat… — John Cage Copy Share Image
'Hanna' doesn't maintain social norms. She doesn't have those boundaries. She speaks her mind and is very physical and funny. — Esme Creed-Miles Copy Share Image
'Eleanor' was so much fun to write, because there's a brutal honesty about her. She's got no filters and no concept of… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
A democratic medical establishment does not alter people's bodies to fit regressive social norms; it advocates for patients by demanding the social… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on… — Qandeel Baloch Copy Share Image
“Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel.” — Mark Gough Copy Share Image
I like to dress the way I like to dress. I kind of like rebelling against the social norms... I feel uncomfortable… — Ashton Sanders Copy Share Image
“Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
“New studies conducted by psychology researcher Joseph Forgas show that mild sadness can actually have a number of benefits that could reflect… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
I had a lot of anger against the way things 'should be done' - conforming to social norms, ticking boxes to gain… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
“Groups must balance the need to enforce norms with the need to adapt. If the group is unable to enforce social norms,… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
“It is the socially determined norms and traditions of gender roles, which must be challenged, and challenged with vigor. In nearly all… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I suppose it's not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do - to feel, discuss feelings. So that's what… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
We've never lived in an environment in which it has been so easy to capture information and share it. That fact that… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
“..civility took root at Wikipedia. It grew into a social norm...But sometimes, even the toughest social norms aren’t enough. We found there… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
Change is difficult and it takes time. It is hard for people to change their own behavior, much less that of others.… — Richard P. Rumelt Copy Share Image
“possible topics around which the currents of speech may flow: Death and the danger of death: violence, fighting, sickness, fear, dreams, premonitions… — William Labov Copy Share Image
“When people become self-centred and self-enclosed, their greed increases. The emptier a person’s heart is, the more he or she needs things… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Las Vegas doesn't allow ( tourism ) to dictate the social norms of their community. We don't have to be a boring… — Eric Thomas Copy Share Image
“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In the U.S., I think there is an ideology of not telling kids what to do. Nobody to tell you who to… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“Dads. It’s time to show our sons how to properly treat a woman. It’s time to show our daughters how a girl… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
“feeling so far is that standardized testing and performance-based salaries are likely to push education from social norms to market norms. The… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“ALEXANDRA To be natural and clean, like the water we drink, love must be free and mutual. But men demand obedience and… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“The more serious about gardening I became, the more dubious lawns seemed. The problem for me was not, as it was for… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Women are often convinced by many different social norms, expectations, and incentives to live within constraints that similarly placed (in terms of… — Cudd/Holmstrom Copy Share Image
“Everyone has a need to feel a sense of self-worth and self-actualization – that he or she believes his or her existence… — Kai-Fu Lee Copy Share Image
“As a young man I started searching for my own identity by looking into family, friends and inside Myself. My mother always… — Rubin Scott Copy Share Image
“Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong." However, the fault is not in the wine,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What is natural, needs to be looked upon, scrutinized and reshaped by each generation of the world, to make it compatible with… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses. — Andrew Lansley Copy Share Image
Openly weeping in front of strangers was such a break from social norms that it was liberating. — Katy Wix Copy Share Image
I feel beautiful when I watch the commercials or see myself on a bus. But it's not only because it is me… — Danielle Brooks Copy Share Image
“There are Tantrics who deliberately break taboos and social norms and then there are other Tantrics who, by means of their practices… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Business culture operates differently in different cities around the world. But I don't think it's possible to design one system that incorporates… — danah boyd Copy Share Image
We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
