44 Quotes About Norms

Privilege is when your voice is the norm but still you claim to be unheard.

Most of us live a life of mediocrity. We spend our lives doing what we are expected to do. In the early stages of our lives, we try to settle in a job. Then we look for a life partner. After forty, we try to work towards our retirement funds. This is the story of the lives of most of the people around us. There might be little variances, but for the most part, the story is the same.

Losing society's auto expectancy is going to make you or break you.

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.

Cultures have norms that reflect centuries of shared beliefs and ideals. Do not expect to scoff at such things with impunity. You will be punished somehow, even if just through isolation — a position of real powerlessness.

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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.

Custom is a shroud that conceals everything. Not without first encountering the uncustomary will we be able to recognize what is customary and, more importantly, to change it. Such is the impulse behind our conversation with the vampryoteuthis