To be told that our child's behavior is "normal" offers little solace when our feelings are badly hurt, or when we worry… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Do I wish that things were more orderly in Washington and rational and people listened to the best arguments and compromised and… — Barack Obama 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
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
The QSM Software Almanac is an invaluable resource. It establishes a norm for software projects, including best of class, worst of class… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
In recent years a new International System has been developing, oriented toward the establishment of norms and principles of universal jurisdiction, above… — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
All the words that George Bush used in public during the early stages of the crisis - "wanted, dead or alive," "a… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Either you allow Holy Scriptures to change you, or you will normally try to use it to change--and clobber--other people. It is… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Legal reform organizations are usually trying to portray their constituents as "hard workers," as "not criminals," as citizens, as part of normative… — Dean Spade 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
Our society’s failure to recognize and care for the social and emotional well-being of our boys contributes to a nation of young… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm,… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
If someone is depressed they tend to retreat within the inner circle of their comfort zone which in the longer term, may… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
The only ‘realistic’ prospect is to ground a new political universality by opting for the impossible, fully assuming the place of the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
You're free to do anything you want with your company. It's more like art. You don't have to follow any norms. It's… — Derek Sivers Copy Share Image
How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm. But I don't expect it to happen now because… — Guy Picciotto 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
Dominance in an adaptation to anarchy and it serves no purpose in a society that has undergone a civilising process or in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Adult women, all of us, have to come to grips with how we have been affected by gender norms, and how we… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
The pornographers are not a deviation from the norm. Their presence in the mainstream shouldn't be surprising, because they represent mainstream values:… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
There is a norm, there is a model of the way things are supposed to be. When you find yourself outside of… — Scott Lively Copy Share Image
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
We are (most of us) embedded in an exceedingly complex network of social relationships, many of which are vital to our well-being.… — Peter Corning Copy Share Image
I was brought up by my grandparents. So people go, 'Oh, what was that like? That must have been hard.' And you… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a… — Betty Buckley Copy Share Image
The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
It is in the interests of all of us - the United States, China and the rest of the world - to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong.… — George Zebrowski Copy Share Image
Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The coercive effect of this policy is particularly pronounced in the school setting given the age and impressionability of schoolchildren, and their… — Alfred Goodwin Copy Share Image
It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil… — Ian Fleming 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
Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
