The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate. — Hendrik Hertzberg Copy Share Image
...we must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged. — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception. — Tyne Daly Copy Share Image
I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don't work. — Tom Brady Copy Share Image
Hurricane seasons with four or more super-hurricanes, those with sustained wind speeds of 131 mph or more will soon become the norm. — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
When digital technology started becoming the norm, you've got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like,… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
There's this idea of shifting baselines. It was coined by a guy named Jeremy Jackson. It's the idea that every generation takes… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what make you go… — Cicely Tyson Copy Share Image
Men are losing power in their daily lives, but manliness is still iconic of power. This creates incredible turbulence around masculinity and… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
I refuse to believe that clubbing is how people are supposed to meet to establish relationships on a level for beyond what… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Don't pressure yourself. Don't worry about what others think you should do or what the societal "norm" is. Do what moves you… — Misha Collins Copy Share Image
We have a contract for the delivery of the S-300s. We have supplied some of the components, but the delivery hasn't been… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Language became a colorless and as indistinct as the business suit which is now worm by everyone, by the scholar, by the… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
A lot of people say, "Oh, I get this high from working out." I've never felt that, maybe because I've worked out… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
The thing is too that when you sell people a false reality and they take that to be the norm, when that… — David Icke Copy Share Image
It's not the norm, I guess, to see someone as aggressive as me being more or less very athletic. You see me… — Ndamukong Suh Copy Share Image
If we agree that universities need to monitor sexual violence in various locations, and that they will require students to hew to… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The concept of absolute, hence (or whence) springs, in the moral field, the moral laws or norms, represent, in the field of… — African Spir Copy Share Image
The sort of the template of being a mother is that you're endlessly giving to the point of exhaustion. You know, that's… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts of 'fair play'… — Jimmy Doolittle Copy Share Image
The kingdom of God must be a continuing revolution against the norms of the society that fall below the standards that are… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
I guess I am nostalgic for a time - the nineteenth century and early twentieth - when writers were, to use Stefan… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Many, and I think the determining, constitutive facts remain outside the reach of the operational concept. And by virtue of this limitation… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Faith must rise beyond the recognised norm into a lifestyle that accurately represents the victorious Son of God. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
I think there's a huge difference between describing norms in a vivid way and singling out individual people. — Susan Fiske Copy Share Image
What we consider to be different depends on what we consider to be the norm. — Youngme Moon Copy Share Image
In some ways, the documentary form is a kind of trap and so is societal norms. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
If regional associations are created, they should work on the basis of WTO norms, on the WTO basis. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“Wenn die Gewalt zur Norm wird, passen sich die Menschen an die Norm an.” — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
