Norm Quotes - Page 18

• 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

  Self, Determined, Free Will

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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

  Susan Fiske

  Thinking, Differences, People

  "We talked to the scientist at the center of a brutal firestorm in the field of psychology". Interview with Rafi Letzter, www.businessinsider.com. September 26, 2016.

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

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Two, Conflict, Inconsistent

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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

  Robert Greene

  Documentaries, Way, Kind

  Source: anny-gomes.com

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• When I would knock about the town in London, I was doing it with my head down, walking very quickly and it had become the norm for me because I'm recognized there. And people are not unkind but occasionally there's a sort of British who do you think you are sort of, I don't really think I'm anybody. I just go about my normal day. But sometimes you're faced with that.

  Ewan McGregor

  Thinking, People, London

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly.

  Jane Goodall

  Behaviour, Our Society, Social

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• To me, the biggest lesson I`ve learned up till now with two weeks to go before the election, and the thing I have to keep, sort of, taking myself back to kind of parse, is just how powerful a personality can be when it is as not worried about norms or shame as a normal person.

  Chris Hayes

  Powerful, Two, Personality

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Let me say one thing to clarify my position. I think we can take distance from norm but I think we are also mired in norm, "empêtrés", I think you say in French. And I think the choices we can make are only in a certain struggle with the norms out of which we're constituted.

  Judith Butler

  Distance, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: ilga.org

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• One struggles always with these norms. So one doesn't construct oneself freely without respect to norm but one works with one's historical situation and sees where there might be some play. Where there might be some freedom to move.

  Judith Butler

  Struggle, Moving, Play

  Source: ilga.org

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• 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

  Sometimes, Break, Determine

  Source: ilga.org

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• I don't want being a woman to be a factor, or being short to bea factor, or being Jewish to be a factor, or anything that makes you outside some design "norm"that I don't understand anyway. That makes me nervous.

  Paula Scher

  Design, Want, Nervous

  Source: es.scribd.com

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• What I am really worried about is that Donald Trump steps outside norms about, for example, what he does about his business. If he holds on to his business or just lets his kids run it, this opens up enormous possibilities for conflicts of interest.

  E. J. Dionne

  Running, Kids, Example

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It's hard to predict what will happen as reading on screen becomes more of a universal norm, and when the formats dictated by social media - Twitter's 140-character limit, for instance - start to influence what we're used to.

  Michael Bierut

  Reading, Character, Media

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• 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

  Girl, Eye, Boys

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• With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

  Ron Fournier

  Leadership, Approval Rating, Lost

  "Why Gov. Christie Is Presidential Timber" by Ron Fournier, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 9, 2013.

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• I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

  Al Gore

  Believe, Moving, Political

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• Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

  Werner Herzog

  Mistake, Illumination, Facts

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• To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

  John Steinbeck

  Honesty, Men, Soul

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.66, Penguin

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• And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down. All U.S. irony is based on an implicit "I don’t really mean what I’m saying." So what does irony as a cultural norm mean to say? That it’s impossible to mean what you say? That maybe it’s too bad it’s impossible, but wake up and smell the coffee already? Most likely, I think, today’s irony ends up saying: "How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.

  David Foster Wallace

  Powerful, Mistake, Coffee

  David Foster Wallace (2012). “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• ..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Believe, Practice, People

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live life not according to their own desires are those who have no desires--which is the majority, actually. People can say what they like, they can speak of abnegation, sacrifice, generosity, acceptance, and resignation, but it's all false. The norm is for people to think that they desire whatever comes to them, whatever they achieve along the way or whatever is given to them--they have no preconceived desires.

  Javier Marías

  Live Life, Acceptance, Sacrifice

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• The "norm" for humanity is love. Brutality is an aberration. We are not sinners by nature. We learn to be bad. We are taught to stray from our good paths. We are made to be crazy by other people who are also crazy and who draw for us a map of the world which is ugly, negative, fearful, and crazy.

  Jack D. Forbes

  Crazy, People, Humanity

  Jack D. Forbes (2011). “Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism”, p.17, Seven Stories Press

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• The extraordinary's the norm.

  Clive Barker

  Extraordinary

  Clive Barker (2011). “The Great and Secret Show”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• It was one of the few places where someone remembered his name. Yeah, okay, so he felt like Sam Malone on Cheers, but there was no Norm or Cliff sitting at the bar here. More like Spike and Switchblade.’ (Wulf)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cheer, Names, Bars

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.102, Macmillan

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• The Gospel has to be the norm.

  Hans Kung

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