Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses. — Andrew Lansley 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
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
Openly weeping in front of strangers was such a break from social norms that it was liberating. — Katy Wix 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
'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
'Eleanor' was so much fun to write, because there's a brutal honesty about her. She's got no filters and no concept of… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“By heavens! there is something after all in the world allowing one man to steal a horse while another must not look… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Sorting through what social conventions we ought to adopt for the Internet is a pretty tricky and complicated topic. I think we… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
“When we tell half-truths in an attempt to maintain social norms and values, we risk losing both our integrity and the maintenance… — Ptera Hunter Copy Share Image
Ultimately, it's a really brave thing to do what makes you happy as opposed to what the norm, or the social norm… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
“By insisting that economic laws always take shape through social norms, values, and political choices, Piketty would rescue his discipline from the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I shake my head at my friend. “Not only is they lines, but you know good as I do where them lines… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
A plastic bag charge is far from representing mere climate change symbolism. It is a clarion call to us all to alter… — Pritam Singh 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
“God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of… — Augustine of Hippo 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“So imagine two scenarios. Let’s say it’s the holidays, and two different neighbors invite you to their parties in the same week.… — Dan Ariely 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
“Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel.” — Mark Gough 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“Media has changed the way we interact with one another and what we spend our time doing. Our social norms have changed.… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
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