Norm Quote by Judith Butler

“If norms are oppressive, try to foster acceptance of deviations, don't try to destroy the norms themselves — that's a fool's errand.”

— T.J. Kirk

The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are...

— Mark Nepo

Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of abolition of…

— B. R. Ambedkar

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

— Virginia Woolf

Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

— Evelyn Glennie

The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot…

— Thomas Sowell

The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and…

— Sigmund Freud

We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.

— John Dewey

Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty; nor the…

— Alexander Hamilton

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain…

— Thomas Sowell

By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins…

— Adolf Hitler