If norms are oppressive, try to foster acceptance of…

“Is deviation from the locally approved norms always and everywhere to be taken as disease?”

— Bernard Wolfe

“Norms operate much like the air we breathe — unseen yet critical for our survival.”

— Frank Sonnenberg

Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's…

— Kary Mullis

Yeah, I think society has changed and women's sport has reaped the benefits from it. Women's sport pushes those social norms as well and…

— Leah Williamson

Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination. King wanted…

— Tom Shales

A democratic medical establishment does not alter people's bodies to fit regressive social norms; it advocates for patients by demanding the social body get…

— Alice Dreger

We've never lived in an environment in which it has been so easy to capture information and share it. That fact that it is…

— Vint Cerf

For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that…

— James S. Coleman

“The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.”

— Susan Cain

If we speak calmly, in a businesslike fashion, let me draw your attention to the fact that Russia supplies arms to the legitimate government…

— Vladimir Putin

All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms…

— Judith Butler

“The carnistic schema, which twists information so that nonsense seems to make perfect sense, also explains why we fail to see the absurdities of…

— Melanie Joy

The domestic policy of any president, U.S. or otherwise, is his or her own concern, as long as democratic norms are followed.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Norms and limits matter. Voters like outside-the-box thinking and innovation, but they like reliability and expertise more.

— Jessica Tarlov

“Every great philosopher, in their own way, questioned the fundamental assumptions that were present in the thinking of their time”

— Steven West