People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that. — Max Cannon Copy Share Image
“Hate speech laws aren't passed to limit hate; they are passed to enforce social norms.” — Flemming Rose Copy Share Image
“Mannequins are both a reflection of our social norms and and a beacon for our ideals.” — Brandy Isadora Copy Share Image
“All the men’s clothes she wore just called attention to how much of a girl she was.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Any human action that goes against what is ordinary, is deemed as an anomaly.” — Abhijit Naskar 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
“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
“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
Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses. — Andrew Lansley Copy Share Image
I like to dress the way I like to dress. I kind of like rebelling against the social norms... I feel uncomfortable… — Ashton Sanders 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
“Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel.” — Mark Gough 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
“No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“After several months in our trio relationship, my husband and I started telling friends about our girlfriend... No one seemed to mind… — Victoria Vantoch Copy Share Image
The voice of authority speaks not for the one but for the many; authority figures have a strong and rapid effect on… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Something I've always written about is social expectations: that the eyes of the community are on you all the time, expecting you… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convince ourselves that the parade of unwelcome and despised is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“The world doesn't need a good woman who is meekly obedient to the uncivilized social norms that advocate female inferiority. The world… — Abhijit Naskar 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
“The teaching of the Buddha is called the Dhamma. He did not teach Buddhism, any more than Jesus taught Christianity. The one… — Ayya Khema 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
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
“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, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In the U.S., I think there is an ideology of not telling kids what to do. Nobody to tell you who to… — Dan Ariely 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
“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
“On the hearth, in front of a back-brand to give substance, blazed a fire of thorns, that crackled 'like the laughter of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong." However, the fault is not in the wine,… — Anonymous 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
“It seems like everyone these days is putting on a mask to feel beautiful, trying to fit into some pre-established norms of… — Vironika Tugaleva 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
“feeling so far is that standardized testing and performance-based salaries are likely to push education from social norms to market norms. The… — Dan Ariely 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
“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