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Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure. -- Paul Collier
Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms. -- Anthony Storr
Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms. -- Jackson Katz
People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that. -- Max Cannon
When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses. -- Andrew Lansley
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal. -- Carl Bernstein
In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased. -- Vladimir Putin
We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules. -- Evan Davis
A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied. -- Dan Savage
We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases. -- Jane McGonigal
Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values. -- Daisaku Ikeda
I believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of western life. It is in the family that children are groomed to practise, promote and pass on the norms of their parents' culture. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection, the immune system deals with it. Similarly, a group enforces its norms, either actively or passively. -- Henry Cloud
Sorting through what social conventions we ought to adopt for the Internet is a pretty tricky and complicated topic. I think we are just going to live through a lot of these issues until we discover what social norms make sense. -- Vint Cerf
The U.N. is worse than disaster. The U.N. creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful U.N. Human Rights Council: It transmits norms which are harmful, anti-liberty and anti-Semitic, among other things. The world would be better off in its absence. -- Charles Krauthammer
If we speak calmly, in a businesslike fashion, let me draw your attention to the fact that Russia supplies arms to the legitimate government of Syria in full compliance with the norms of international law. We are not breaching any rules and norms. -- Vladimir Putin
We've never lived in an environment in which it has been so easy to capture information and share it. That fact that it is digital and easy to transmit exacerbates that. I don't know that we know yet what social norms we wish to adopt. -- Vint Cerf
Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel. -- Natan Sharansky
All experts on WHO advisory groups for developing norms, standards and guidelines are required to disclose interests regarding the advisory committee's area of work. If a declared interest is potentially significant, then the expert is either excluded from the meeting or given a restricted role. -- Margaret Chan
Party and ideology routinely trump institutional interests and responsibilities. Regular order - the set of rules, norms and traditions designed to ensure a fair and transparent process - was the first casualty. The results: No serious deliberation. No meaningful oversight of the executive. A culture of corruption. -- Thomas E. Mann
It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation. -- Judith Butler
Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control. -- Martin Filler
If our moral attitudes are entirely the result of nonrational factors, such as gut feelings and the absorption of cultural norms, they should either be stable or randomly drift over time, like skirt lengths or the widths of ties. They shouldn't show systematic change over human history. But they do. -- Paul Bloom
The United Nations is the preeminent institution of multilateralism. It provides a forum where sovereign states can come together to share burdens, address common problems, and seize common opportunities. The U.N. helps establish the norms that many countries - including the United States - would like everyone to live by. -- Shashi Tharoor
I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms. -- Gary Hamel
You can go into neighborhoods in the United States where people dress a certain way because they don't want to be out of touch, where boys wear pants down to their knees, which nobody has compelled them to do but they pick up the cultural norms, or where girls are improperly dressed by my eyes, but that's what they see in the media. -- Hillary Clinton
Rules broken today become norms tomorrow. -- Bill Gates
Fact creates norms, and truth illumination. -- Werner Herzog
Advertising is about norms and values, aspirations and prejudices. It is about culture. -- Anil Ambani
[We need] to keep immigration levels measured by population share within historical norms. -- Donald Trump
We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly. -- Jane Goodall
There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn't exist. -- Fernando Pessoa
Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when it's inconvenient to do so. -- Barack Obama
Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination. -- Werner Herzog
Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses. -- Andrew Lansley
In some ways, the documentary form is a kind of trap and so is societal norms. -- Robert Greene
It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted. -- Judith Butler
The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate. -- Hendrik Hertzberg
Women with short hair are really sexy. There's something liberating about freeing yourself from the norms, -- Amber Valletta
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings. -- John Ortberg
As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony. -- Pankaj Mishra
You must bow on your knees at all times before the ruling-class norms to show you are submissive. -- Bryant McGill
If two norms conflict, if they are mutually inconsistent, then at least one of them must be false. -- Torbjorn Tannsjo
If regional associations are created, they should work on the basis of WTO norms, on the WTO basis. -- Vladimir Putin
I think there's a huge difference between describing norms in a vivid way and singling out individual people. -- Susan Fiske
We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change. -- Atul Gawande
The industry must adhere to certain consumer protection norms if the Internet is to remain an open platform for innovation. -- Michael K. Powell
In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies. -- William Bennett
The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment. -- Carl von Clausewitz
The right to life of a woman should not be contingent on her obedience of social norms and traditions."A.Prasad(Venkat Seminar )" -- Ashoka Prasad
To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes. -- Alex Campbell
A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving. -- David Harsanyi
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. -- Lauren Groff
An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world. -- Henri Langlois
Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards. -- James S. Coleman
The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards. -- Johan Huizinga
I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity. -- Earle Brown
Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race. -- Jonathan Michel Metzl
Jesus literally sliced through years of rabbinical law and cultural norms with the extreme love of God that sees the treasure in every human heart. -- Danny Silk
In places like South Afghanistan, where cultural norms prevent men from entering homes, female vaccinators often make the difference between a closed or opened door. -- Ksenia Solo
Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods. -- Dmitry Medvedev
Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and in increasing success. -- David Brooks
More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and ability norms. -- Dean Spade
What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time we have to suspend. -- Lee Kuan Yew
We have to ask how we can stretch and how sometimes we can break the norms that determine what's intelligible and readable and what is not. -- Judith Butler
For me, self-discipline has never corresponded to a voluntary adhesion to norms invented by others. It has always been the first step towards breaking the chains. -- Eugenio Barba
The question of international norms or international resolutions, you know, coming from Mr. Obama is not really about whether there are international norms or resolutions to uphold. -- Vijay Prashad
A democratic medical establishment does not alter people's bodies to fit regressive social norms; it advocates for patients by demanding the social body get its act together. -- Alice Dreger
History teaches that when valuations are extreme, "mean reversion," a move towards historical norms, is likely. Once value stocks turn, the recovery can be fast and intense. -- Robert D. Arnott
Knowing that "me" is inextricably linked to blackness, [I try to enjoy] the process of expanding beyond the expected boundaries set by existing culture, norms and media. -- Baratunde Thurston
I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion. -- Anne Parillaud
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. -- Barack Obama
Having had virtually no contact with the outside world for the last few weeks, Evan had temporarily forgotten the social norms governing shopping conduct or approaching celebrities in public. -- Zack Love
Beauty might prevail in the very short term, but in the medium and longer terms, cultural norms - primarily those values and norms influenced by family - were more important. -- Nicholas Sparks
I can tell you many reasons why environmental stories don't get adequate attention in conventional media. Basically, environmental risks don't fit the norms of journalism. They're incremental. We hate incremental. -- Andrew Revkin
All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us. -- Judith Butler
All societies establish laws that become norms. Those norms create the environment that incubates society. So, when you implement the laws of God in society, they produce a culture of heaven. -- Myles Munroe
Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but self-determined, in accordance with reasons or norms rationally self-given. -- Allen W. Wood
For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests. -- James S. Coleman
The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters. -- Carol P. Christ
To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act of permanent rebellion and subversion against social environs. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
By replacing history with fantasy, the Palestinians have invented a society unlike any other, where hatred trumps bread. They have reared children unlike any other children, removed from ordinary norms and behaviors. -- Cynthia Ozick
Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination. King wanted to be liked, not feared; admired, not loathed. -- Tom Shales
Business culture operates differently in different cities around the world. But I don't think it's possible to design one system that incorporates all social norms for networking. Human beings are just too diverse. -- danah boyd
There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply rooted in the values, traditions, and norms of family and culture. -- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members -- Francis Fukuyama
In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority. -- James S. Coleman
Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party. -- George Packer
The United States is committed to a regional order rooted in international rules and norms, including freedom of navigation, and the peaceful resolution of disputes. That's the only way to ensure our common security. -- Barack Obama
Culture is a product of law. And laws create norms for society. This is why anyone who wants to change the culture of a country must try to change the norms of the country. -- Myles Munroe
Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need a public debate about the moral limits of markets. -- Michael Sandel
Attempts to settle crises by unilateral sanctions outside the framework of U.N. Security Council decisions threaten international peace and stability. Such attempts are counterproductive and contradict the norms and principles of international law. -- Sergei Lavrov
While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others. -- Thomas Sowell
Control over consciousness cannot be institutionaliz ed. As soon as it becomes part of a set of social rules and norms, it ceases to be effective in the way it was originally intended to be. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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