Common sense Quote by Aijaz Ahmad

“Normality in our part of the world is a bit like a boiled egg: its humdrum surface conceals at its heart a yolk of…

— Arundhati Roy

The great enemy of any totalitarian regime is normalization and trade.

— Robert Scheer

“For there is another truth: to the extent that other cultures have failed to adopt at least major aspects of Western ways, they remain…

— Rodney Stark

“Normality is itself the absolute element (paramtattva) of the world!”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Normality is like a home to us and everyday life a mother. After a long incursion into great poetry, into the mountains of sublime…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Normality is merely a matter of consensus; that is, a lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.”

— Paulo Coelho

“We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside of it.”

— Jon Ronson

“A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I don't think that [normalization] necessarily is going to damage the emerging economies.

— Jamie Dimon

Despite all the boosterish talk of globalization breaking down barriers, most writers in Anglo-America are still working within the nationalist assumptions of their traditionally…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Just because something is normal in a culture does not make it ethically sound. Normal merely means there is a social consensus that it…

— Kevin Focke

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or…

— George Edward Woodberry