The unacceptable over time becomes the norm.

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that…

— Thomas Sowell

Modern capitalism seeks to assure us that it operates according to the principles of free creativity, endless development and diversity. It glosses over its…

— Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like…

— Joseph Sobran

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

It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be…

— Bernard Lonergan

I was a breed of people who aren't capable of doing anything, really. At college I began to get the idea that being macho…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

There is something very special about this part of the world [U.S], which is the openness and the curiosity and the lack of prejudice…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and…

— Indira Gandhi

I've grown up watching and admiring Norm. Sherie actually starred in the first off-Broadway show I ever saw in New York, which was The…

— Tituss Burgess

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

— Tanith Lee

If girls are ever going to start to be in bands as the norm rather than as the exception. They need to see people…

— Tobi Vail

That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn't in the norm.

— Alice Cooper

Faith must rise beyond the recognised norm into a lifestyle that accurately represents the victorious Son of God.

— Bill Johnson

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the…

— Cicely Tyson