Norm Quotes · Page 10

Norms appearing in the form of law entitle actors to exercise their rights or liberties. However, one cannot determine which of these…

— Jurgen Habermas

My hope is that the president-elect [Donald Trump] coming in takes a similarly constructive approach, finding areas where we can cooperate with…

— Barack Obama

Why is everything that's good for our bodies, our communities, our world, and our planet called the 'alternative'? That means everything bad…

— Julia Hill

In England, there are so many TV commercials with nudity in them, and there are so many TV programs that show nudity…

— Mark Roberts

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

— Virginia Woolf

For years, more women were steered toward the studio or toward being a reporter. If that's what you want to do and…

— Beth Mowins

That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to…

— Pope Pius XII

Without the values at the core of Christianity and other world religions, without moral norms that have been shaped over millennia, people…

— Vladimir Putin

If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.

— Jim Gilmore

Homosexuality is not 'normal' On the contrary it is a challenge to the norm...Nature exists whether academics like it or not. And…

— Camille Paglia

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain…

— James S. Coleman

To achieve consistently terrific customer service, you must hire wonderful people who believe in your company's goals, habitually do better than the…

— Richard Branson

If it hasn't already done so, the church... must recognize that it lives in a pagan society; it must seek for values…

— Doris Janzen Longacre

Why not assume that our humanity, including the self-control needed for livable societies, is built into us? Does anyone truly believe that…

— Frans de Waal

The thing is too that when you sell people a false reality and they take that to be the norm, when that…

— David Icke

Our Pastoral solicitude induces us to earnestly protect and preserve in everything and especially in the sacred rites of the Church the…

— Pope Clement VIII

It's become such a cultural norm that people brag about it: "Oh yeah, you did that? I did this." Keeping up with…

— Brigid Schulte

Many, and I think the determining, constitutive facts remain outside the reach of the operational concept. And by virtue of this limitation…

— Herbert Marcuse

Language became a colorless and as indistinct as the business suit which is now worm by everyone, by the scholar, by the…

— Paul Feyerabend

The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a…

— Linda Grant

John McEnroe...was arguably the best serve-and-volley man of all time, but then McEnroe was an exception to pretty much every predictive norm…

— David Foster Wallace

We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change.

— Atul Gawande

Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but…

— Allen W. Wood

You marry out of free will. If I marry, it will be from a personal choice, not some social compulsion or norm.

— Sonam Kapoor

We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour,…

— Evan Davis