Quotes about Social norms

Explore a curated collection of 78 quotes about Social norms at QuotesRead.com. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words on Social norms from famous authors and thinkers around the world.

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and prover — Jane Austen, Persuasion
The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make — Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
By heavens! there is something after all in the world allowing one man to steal a horse while another must not look at a — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to — Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social r — Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all femin — Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to — Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too — Anaïs Nin
Any human action that goes against what is ordinary, is deemed as an anomaly. — Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
The human has not one but two births – first, when a person is born from the mother’s womb, and second, when that person — Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
In the society of thinking humanity, the natural law of trust should be - In I, I trust. — Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why — Christine de Pizan, Der Sendbrief vom Liebesgott / The Letter of the God of Love
[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different — Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciou — Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. — Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
It really is something ... that men disapprove even of our doing things that are patently good. Wouldn't it be possible — Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
What is in the minds of the majority the society is unmindful of. — Amit Abraham
The imagination serves us only when the mind is absolutely free of any prejudice. A single prejudice suffices to cool of — Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Boudoir or, The Immoral Mentors