Norm Quotes
294 quotes by 256 authors
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The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonable arguments…
— David Brin
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I've always known and been interested in people who are a little bit off the norm. I like to call attention to the idea that…
— Charles de Lint
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When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.
— Robert M. Pirsig
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In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in…
— Andrea Dworkin
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For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.
— Roger Mudd
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
— John Ortberg
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In 'The General Strike,' we celebrate those who bring a new vision for the world to the table. People who stand for workers rights, human…
— Justin Sane
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Everyone has sunk on this plane to such a low state of consciousness, it is the natural state. We have deviated so far from the…
— Frederick Lenz
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I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of the Portuguese language…
— Paulo Freire
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I suppose it's not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do - to feel, discuss feelings. So that's what I'm giving the…
— Jess C Scott
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
— Carl Bernstein
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
— Tanith Lee
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All experts on WHO advisory groups for developing norms, standards and guidelines are required to disclose interests regarding the advisory committee's area of work. If…
— Margaret Chan
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When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.
— Stanley Crouch
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I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
— Lauren Groff
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I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports…
— Johnny Galecki
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My cellmate's raped on the norm, and passed around the dorm, you can hear his asshole getting torn.
— Tupac Shakur
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Green consumerism generally, and 'healthy' products and lifestyles in particular, contain quite precise notions about how an individual should consider his or her well-being. Not…
— Peter Dickens
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In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be…
— James S. Coleman
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I don't want to drive the markets crazy. I don't want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We have to struggle…
— Francois Hollande
Who Wrote These Norm Quotes
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