Acquaintance Quote by Frank Zappa

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established

— Confucius

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

— Fernando Pessoa

“People often take because they don’t realize that they’re deviating from the norm. In these situations, showing them the norm is often enough to…

— Adam M. Grant

The real things are apt to be deviant.

— Osamu Dazai

Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

— Kathryn Bigelow

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“They need a social mechanism to make us require conformity of one other, and the best way to do that is to provide a…

— Charles Stross

We are totally dysfunctional.” “I prefer ‘selectively deviant’. But we’ll keep that to ourselves.

— Sylvia Day

A common civility to an impertinent fellow, often draws upon one a great many unforeseen troubles; and if one doth not take particular care,…

— Joseph Addison

It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.

— Judith Butler

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

— Max Cannon