Best Socially Acceptable Quotes
45 Socially Acceptable quotes by 42 unique authors
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Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.
— George Carlin
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All the stereotypical ‘dude’ geeky things I like are socially acceptable, and all the stereotypical ‘lady’ geeky things I like are frowned upon….
— Amanda Hocking
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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science…
— Richard Dawkins
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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
— E L Doctorow
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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
— Sydney J. Harris
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There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
— Katharine Whitehorn
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I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the…
— David Levithan
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Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if I was playing…
— Nick Hornby
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I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable.
— Rachel Cohn
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His voice was soft and sweet as molasses; but my mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of…
— Patricia Briggs
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She doesn’t know,” Cate said. “Kellen is a secret. I didn’t think my mother would approve.” “Why wouldn’t your mother approve?” Pugg asked. “It’s my…
— Janet Evanovich
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I’ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this. You know, play…
— Jim Butcher
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I don’t think it should be socially acceptable for people to say they are “bad with names.” No one is bad with names. That is…
— Mindy Kaling
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I could go on a long rant about how much I despise e-mail. I wish it was more socially acceptable to ignore people.
— Steve Huffman
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Numerically speaking, half the population cannot be a minority. Yet when it comes to women, the numbers plainly show that the mathematically impossible is the…
— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
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Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I knew what it was to feel…
— John Logan
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Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.
— Richard Carlson
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The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.
— Elfriede Jelinek
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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.
— Albert Bandura
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The idea of revenge, is rather interesting. Inflicting hurt or harm on someone, should never be thought. But this idea, is just that. An idea;…
— Aj Leal
Who Wrote These Socially Acceptable Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 45 Socially Acceptable Quotes, led by these top contributors: