Social Norms Quotes

"In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give early in your youth a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob." "Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists." "We are living in an environment where people think appearances are reality" "In truth, politeness is artificial good humor" "The customs of the rich are the laws of the multitude." "When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you uncomfortable" "Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition and society and family" "We have in fact two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach" "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society" "He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest " "There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible – the new normal." "It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak." "There is no norm that, when violated, does not become the norm of another." "Guests like fish begin to smell after three days" "Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others" "There are many kinds of education: knowledge of customs and behavior as well as knowledge of the mind"