Socially Acceptable Quotes
45 quotes by 43 authors
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Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This…
— Albert Bandura
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I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.
— Todd Barry
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I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of…
— Jo Brand
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I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label…
— Herman Cain
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I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my…
— Will Arnett
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Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside.
— George Robinson
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The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable…
— Edward Abbey
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Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.
— Amy Adams
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You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in…
— A. Whitney Brown
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Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many…
— Judith Wright
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People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there. Maybe my methods aren't socially acceptable to some, but it's what I have…
— Jimmy Connors
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Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from the jungle yet…
— Paul Watson
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Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting. It is the last socially…
— Bernice Sandler
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I’ve made my life’s work spotting assholes. And you know, I think it’s harder now than ever before because there’s so many socially acceptable ways…
— Merrill Markoe
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The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary.
— Alexandra Harney
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Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.
— Osbert Lancaster
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Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public
— Paulo Coelho
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Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask.
— Deepak Chopra
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In a society where the roles everyone plays are obvious, the refusal to conform to any standard will excite interest. Be both masculine and feminine,…
— Robert Greene
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Anyone who falls in love is a freak. Its like a socially acceptable form of insanity.
— Amy Adams
Who Wrote These Socially Acceptable Quotes
43 authors contributed a total of 45 Socially Acceptable Quotes, led by these top contributors: