“You can tell a lot about the intellectual and moral progress of a nation’s citizens, by the quality and nature of the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on… — Qandeel Baloch 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
'Hanna' doesn't maintain social norms. She doesn't have those boundaries. She speaks her mind and is very physical and funny. — Esme Creed-Miles Copy Share Image
“While he rested, she asked, 'What's the difference between natives and outsiders?' 'Natives,' he replied, 'eat indoors and shit outdoors, outsiders eat… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Openly weeping in front of strangers was such a break from social norms that it was liberating. — Katy Wix Copy Share Image
“Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“What is natural, needs to be looked upon, scrutinized and reshaped by each generation of the world, to make it compatible with… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“New studies conducted by psychology researcher Joseph Forgas show that mild sadness can actually have a number of benefits that could reflect… — Dalai Lama XIV 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
“It is the socially determined norms and traditions of gender roles, which must be challenged, and challenged with vigor. In nearly all… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“People of civilized countenance made much of exposing the soft underbellies of their psyche—effete and sensitive were the brands of finer breeding.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Harmony is not a luxury, it is an existential necessity of the species. And to achieve it, if a hundred Bibles have… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Youth enwrapped them; the song of Phaethon announced passion requited, love attained. But they were conscious of a love more mysterious than… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir… — Virginia Woolf 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
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
“When people become self-centred and self-enclosed, their greed increases. The emptier a person’s heart is, the more he or she needs things… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“possible topics around which the currents of speech may flow: Death and the danger of death: violence, fighting, sickness, fear, dreams, premonitions… — William Labov Copy Share Image
“Over the course of the last three decades, however, barriers to power have weakened at a very fast pace. They are now… — Moisés Naím Copy Share Image
When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
“Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“These ideas fit the experience of these Japanese women who often talked about searching for or trying to develop "self" (jibun). Cultivating… — Nancy Ross Rosenberger Copy Share Image
“As a young man I started searching for my own identity by looking into family, friends and inside Myself. My mother always… — Rubin Scott Copy Share Image
“Everyone has a need to feel a sense of self-worth and self-actualization – that he or she believes his or her existence… — Kai-Fu Lee Copy Share Image
“The more serious about gardening I became, the more dubious lawns seemed. The problem for me was not, as it was for… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Women are often convinced by many different social norms, expectations, and incentives to live within constraints that similarly placed (in terms of… — Cudd/Holmstrom Copy Share Image
“ALEXANDRA To be natural and clean, like the water we drink, love must be free and mutual. But men demand obedience and… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I was born with this wanderlust to move, constantly, as far as I could. It's more than I have a very hard… — Steven Rinella 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
“There are Tantrics who deliberately seek to do more active forms of renunciation, so transgression of social norms and breaking of taboo,… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
I feel beautiful when I watch the commercials or see myself on a bus. But it's not only because it is me… — Danielle Brooks Copy Share Image
Business culture operates differently in different cities around the world. But I don't think it's possible to design one system that incorporates… — danah boyd 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