Top 1200 Social Norms Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of madness arose and became of great social significance. In the next chapter I shall examine the creation of social deviants, and shall show that as formerly priests had manufactured heretics, so physicians, as the new guardians of social conduct and morality, began to manufacture madmen.

Breaking of norms and disregard for decency have huge, long-term costs.

Rules broken today become norms tomorrow.

I'm not always interested in Hollywood norms and boy-next-door kind of characters.

The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.

Why not assume that our humanity, including the self-control needed for livable societies, is built into us? Does anyone truly believe that our ancestors lacked social norms before they had religion? Did they never assist others in need, or complain about an unfair deal? Humans must have worried about the functioning of their communities well before the current religions arose, which is only a few thousand years ago.

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

For many of these people the social is just a mirror of themselves. I'm not against the social, but I want something genuinely social, not something that has been fetishized as social so that a group of people can feel better about themselves.

Phones were created as social tools. Smartphones are especially good at being social, integrating text, voice, video and images in an endless number of apps that can serve a user's needs, and all without the need for a web-based social network.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

Economic policy and foreign policy in Europe have been too liberal. We have failed when it comes to maintaining the social contract, which is the very foundation of the social-democratic social model.

I think the challenge of climate change in particular is the challenge for us to create and produce new norms for a new kind of world. And that's why I think as important as the issue of climate change is, it's even more important than it seems because if we can't evolve very quickly, new norms to deal with issues like climate change, we're not going to be able to survive in the kind of world we've created. So I think, really, the whole nature of democracy, of governance, of global community and of solving the kinds of problems of the 21st Century are really at stake.

My Third-World roots remind me that the vast majority of our fellow human beings live hungry, sick, and uneducated, and that most social scientists, even in that world, ignore that ugly reality. This is why my papers in mathematical sociology deal not with free choice among 30 flavors of ice-cream, but with social structure, social cohesion, and social marginality.

Millions of Americans have paid into social security and deserve their full benefits. Pure and simple, Republicans are manufacturing a social security crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle social security.

The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.

So, I think slowly, the women of this industry are changing the norms and I'm proud to be one of them.

If two norms conflict, if they are mutually inconsistent, then at least one of them must be false.

What type of new economical system can organize this system? There is another sector in our life, that we rely on every single day, that are absolutely essential: the social commons, the social economy. It is all the activity we engage in to create social capital. It doesn't create capital market. Social commons is growing faster than the market place. It is growing faster than the market place. The social commons include any activity that is deeply social and collaborative.

The industry must adhere to certain consumer protection norms if the Internet is to remain an open platform for innovation.

Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when it's inconvenient to do so.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

Training a reliable military force that adheres to Western norms and standards is the work of a generation, not a few months.

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

Small businesses forget how to be social. Everyone tries to do social media when they should just try being social. To be successful with social media, you have to treat each individual person just like you would in real life by establishing a genuine connection with them.

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

Change is difficult and it takes time. It is hard for people to change their own behavior, much less that of others. Change programs normally address attitudes, ideas, and rewards. But the behaviors of people in organizations are also strongly shaped by habits, routines, and social norms. Real change requires new power relationships, new work routines and new habits, not just intent.

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

Bumble is about equality. We are reverse-engineering traditional societal norms.

If Facebook gets your entire social graph, you don't necessarily want to share everything with your entire social graph. You might wanna parse that social graph. So there's a company called PASS that is a private social network that I personally use for my friends and my family.

I think there's a huge difference between describing norms in a vivid way and singling out individual people.

In some ways, the documentary form is a kind of trap and so is societal norms.

Too often athletes think there's these norms that I have to fit into and there are people that I have to please.

[We need] to keep immigration levels measured by population share within historical norms.

Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.

No, traditions and norms aren't rules in the Constitution. There's a difference between a tradition and a law.

I feel like I want to make anime that destroys the norms, something that would be strong, even if it is unconventional.

Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.

This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue.

Women with short hair are really sexy. There's something liberating about freeing yourself from the norms.

Stark inequality, poverty, and unemployment are driving increased social unrest and, consequently, social and economic risk. Environmental deterioration may well intensify social inequality.

We're often too entrenched in existing structures and are so primed to think that if we grew up with the values and the norms, they have to be correct.

As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony.

One of the things you discover about being president is that there are all these rules and norms and laws and you got to pay attention to them.

I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.

For one to be free there must be at least two. Freedom signifies a social relation, an asymmetry of social conditions: essentially it implies social difference--it presumes and implies the presence of social division. Some can be free only in so far as there is a form of dependence they can aspire to escape.

I wanna be remembered as someone who broke all the norms.

I found comfort in aggression, in breaking through false walls and challenging norms.

As a matter of principle, we are opposed to destabilising a stable government, and I believe in the norms of healthy democracy.

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

I am an actor so I have to do my work and going beyond societal norms.

Our immigrants joined a settler culture, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, that demanded assimilation to its norms.

High levels of inequality generate high costs for society, dampening social mobility, undermining the labour market prospects of vulnerable social groups, and creating social unrest.

Not many directors have the courage to make movies that are against conventional, commercial norms.

My social media world is detached from my friendship world. I'll have friends in real life that I don't follow on social media, because I don't really look at social media as the way of connecting to friends. For me, social media is like a business tool.

There are many commitments I have made for reducing poverty. One is to reform social security. Social security reaches only 44 percent of Mexicans. One of my goals is to give social security to all the people.

They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this position if black women were not willing to conform to prevailing sexist gender norms. Many black women who has endured white-supremacist patriarchal domination during slavery did not want to be dominated by black men after manumission.

I am not really superstitious but do follow certain established norms.

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Drag has always been very political and challenging of societal norms and other aspects of life.