111 Quotes About Social-norms

I always think the opening moments of a party are the hardest, before everyone has had enough to drink.

The human has not one but two births – first, when a person is born from the mother’s womb, and second, when that person rises from the socio-culturally imposed cocoon of prejudices and ignorance.

Ignorance binds people tighter than culture.

By heavens! there is something after all in the world allowing one man to steal a horse while another must not look at a halter. Steal a horse straight out. Very well. He has done it. Perhaps he can ride. But there is a way of looking at a halter that would provoke the most charitable of saints into a kick.

All social interactions require some loss of freedom.

The social organization makes man dependent on one another.

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 revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.

Riding in a carriage without an escort is modern. But traveling out and about unescorted is unheard of.

A nation with a thousand awakened citizens and a corrupt leader, is much more alive than a nation with an awakened leader and a thousand corrupt citizens.