Character Quote by Gunnar Myrdal Download Open image “Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy” — Gunnar Myrdal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Lost Morality Remedy Shy Social Social taboos Taboo Virtue
Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress — Kate Burridge Copy Share Image
The way that social norms become social norms is not through any systematic process. It is through a flowering of an understanding within a… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
I will never shy away from social issues in my books - or in my everyday life. — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
“For a shy person it’s hard enough to overcome self-consciousness and establish personal relationships with others without having the additional hindrance of a well-meaning… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
Remember, taboos are just a map of what a society feels it's acceptable to be neurotic about. Taboos aren't rational. — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart - a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“Human sociality is often assumed to be entirely a matter of culture, originating from the age of life when children are taught to be nice to one another. A cascade of discoveries, many in the past decade, has made clear that this is not the case. Human sociality has been shaped by natural selection, just as might be expected for… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share
Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost carried connotations… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
It is natural for the ordinary American when he sees something wrong to feel not only that there should be a law against it… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be found to… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
