Conformity Quote by Franz Boas

I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which…

— Judith Martin

Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably…

— Howard Gardner

The universalist approach is roughly: 'What is good and right can be defined and always applies.' In particularist cultures far greater attention is given…

— Fons Trompenaars

The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality.

— Judith Martin

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

— Anonymous

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.

— Francis Schaeffer

We are all seeking to live up to normative standards that we recognize, even if we don't all recognize the same standards. This is…

— Samuel Scheffler

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

— Ken Olsen

Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that…

— Peter Singer

All standards are double standards.

— Tucker Carlson

In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards - that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms - has been the criterion of…

— Walter Gropius