Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.
John: [repeated line; to Norm] You're a swine.
To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.
But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.
Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods.
I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways.
...as we mature, we begin to realize that life in the Box remains the same, with few deviations from this norm.
Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.
Belane, are you nuts?" Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?
I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.
But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.
Norm: Shake, take that wig off! It suits you.
Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.
A democratic medical establishment does not alter people's bodies to fit regressive social norms; it advocates for patients by demanding the social body get its act together.
Ringo: It's the Circle Club. Paul: [reads aloud the invite] "The management of the Circle Club takes pleasure in requesting the company of Mr. Richard Starkey - that's you - to their gaming rooms. Chemin de Fer, Baccarat, and Champagne buffet". Ringo...
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
Humanity will never truly evolve until personal responsibility becomes the norm.
For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests.
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. -Frank Zappa, composer, musician, film director (1940-1993)
