Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer… — Paul Collier Copy Share Image
“Custom is a shroud that conceals everything. Not without first encountering the uncustomary will we be able to recognize what is customary… — Vilém Flusser Copy Share Image
In places like South Afghanistan, where cultural norms prevent men from entering homes, female vaccinators often make the difference between a closed… — Ksenia Solo Copy Share Image
We've never lived in an environment in which it has been so easy to capture information and share it. That fact that… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
If we speak calmly, in a businesslike fashion, let me draw your attention to the fact that Russia supplies arms to the… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the… — Earle Brown Copy Share Image
Attempts to settle crises by unilateral sanctions outside the framework of U.N. Security Council decisions threaten international peace and stability. Such attempts… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
The way that social norms become social norms is not through any systematic process. It is through a flowering of an understanding… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
We're often too entrenched in existing structures and are so primed to think that if we grew up with the values and… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
As all of us know, health is deeply intertwined with culture: what we eat, how active we are, how much we sleep.… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Clearly, we are not programmed at birth to behave a certain way based on our gender. Instead, we are trained throughout our… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
A democratic medical establishment does not alter people's bodies to fit regressive social norms; it advocates for patients by demanding the social… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Yeah, I think society has changed and women's sport has reaped the benefits from it. Women's sport pushes those social norms as… — Leah Williamson Copy Share Image
For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex… — James S. Coleman Copy Share Image
A free Net may depend on some wisely developed and implemented locks and a community ethos that secures the keys to those… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's… — James S. Coleman Copy Share Image
Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination.… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I am an actor so I have to do my work and going beyond societal norms. — Saqib Saleem Copy Share Image
Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses. — Andrew Lansley Copy Share Image
Unfortunately (or fortunately), this world is all about being good on records. — Mohit Sharma Copy Share Image
“We're all teased or pressured into conforming to the all-levelling social norms of mediocrity.” — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
Our immigrants joined a settler culture, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, that demanded assimilation to its norms. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I found comfort in aggression, in breaking through false walls and challenging norms. — Rege-Jean Page Copy Share Image
When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
So, I think slowly, the women of this industry are changing the norms and I'm proud to be one of them. — Kashmira Shah Copy Share Image
I don't follow norms in my life. They don't make sense to me. I do whatever I feel or what makes me… — Radhika Apte Copy Share Image
“There are no norms. Science is a tool; not a determinant. Experimentalism is a method; not a goal. Experience is an adverb;… — George Kneller Copy Share Image
I believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of western life. It is in the… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“No one cares about an injured leg of a tiny ant It has to be healed for its own walking Such is… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
We should respond to the inspiring yet daunting innovations of AI by working with partners to set norms for its use, growing… — Andy Kim Copy Share Image
All societies establish laws that become norms. Those norms create the environment that incubates society. So, when you implement the laws of… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
“The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
All modern secularity requires is that our public norms and the arguments for them not presuppose common acceptance of Jewish or Christian… — David Novak Copy Share Image
Vita Sackville-West is one of my favorite female icons. She was a writer and a prolific gardener, but she also had a… — Gwendoline Christie Copy Share Image
Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
If our moral attitudes are entirely the result of nonrational factors, such as gut feelings and the absorption of cultural norms, they… — Paul Bloom 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
In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
