Quotes about norm
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Quotes about norm

"My Pet Theory" on the second disc of the twin CD version
The MOFO Project/Object (2006)
Context: The '60s was really stupid … It was a type of merchandising, Americans had this hideous weakness, they had this desire to be OK, fun guys and gals, and they haven't come to terms with the reality of the situation: we were not created equal. Some people can do carpentry, some people can do mathematics, some people are brain surgeons and some people are winos and that's the way it is, and we're not all the same. This concept of one world-ism, everything blended and smoothed out to this mediocre norm that everybody downgrades themselves to be is stupid. The '60s was merchandised to the public at large... My pet theory about the '60s is that there is a sinister plot behind it... The lessons learnt in the '60s about merchandising stupidity to the American public on a large scale have been used over and over again since that time.
2003
From the poem, "The Addictive Life.”

“There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.”

Euronews interview on issue of Nagorno-Karabakh (02 February 2010) http://www.euronews.com/2010/02/02/interview-with-ilham-aliyev-president-of-azerbaijan
Nagorno-Karabakh

Habermas (2006) "Conversation about God and the World." Time of transitions. Cambridge: Polity Press, p. 150-151.

I, xxi, 41. Modern translation by J.H. Taylor
De Genesi ad Litteram
Source: On organizational learning (1999), p. 438 as cited in: Leni Wildflower, Diane Brennan (2011) The Handbook of Knowledge-Based Coaching. p. 159

“There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm.”
Il n'y avait pas d'anormaux quand l'homosexualité était la norme.
Pt. I
In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. IV: Cities of the Plain (1921-1922)

"What Is Justice?" (1952), published in What is Justice? (1957)

2016, United Nations Address (September 2016)

Orientamo-nos por normas geradas segundo consensos, e domínios, mete-se pelos olhos dentro que variando o domínio varia o consenso, Não deixas saída, Porque não há saída, vivemos num quarto fechados e pintamos o mundo e o universo nas paredes dele.
Source: The History of the Siege of Lisbon (1989), p. 267

Cocaine Decisions (1983) http://youtube.com/watch?v=RDEwJ2xlSXk
Context: I'll tell you what classical music is, for those of you who don't know. Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago. And it's formula music, the same as top forty music is formula music. In order to have a piece be classical, it has to conform to academic standards that were the current norms of that day and age … I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health.

"Science Fiction and a World in Crisis" in Science Fiction: Today and Tomorrow (1974) edited by Reginald Bretnor
General sources
Context: The current utopian ideal being touted by people as politically diverse (on the surface, but not underneath) as President Richard M. Nixon and Senator Edward M. Kennedy goes as follows — no deeds of passion allowed, no geniuses, no criminals, no imaginative creators of the new. Satisfaction may be gained only in carefully limited social interactions, in living off the great works of the past. There must be limits to any excitement. Drug yourself into a placid "norm." Moderation is the key word…

2018, Speech at the University of Illinoise Speech (2018)

“Belane, are you nuts?"
Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?”

“With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.”
2000s
Source: [The Real Face of Atheism, 2004, 9780801065118, 3293056M, http://books.google.com/books?id=0SD0mYaYz3sC&pg=PA56&dq=%22with+no+fact%22, 56]

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

Source: Capitalism and Modern Social Theory (1971), pp. 230-231.

Herbert Gintis and Rakesh Khurana. " What Happened When Homo Economicus Entered Business School https://evonomics.com/what-happens-when-you-introduce-homo-economicus-into-business/," in: evonomics.com, July 14, 2016.

Source: The Economic Illusion (1984), Chapter 3, Trade, p. 124
"A Black Theology of Liberation," Black Theology, v. 3, n. 1, January 2005
G. A. Cohen, Self-ownership, Freedom, and Equality https://books.google.com/books?id=oeUQjOLNY-wC&pg=PA3 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 3

The normative state, he said, is defenseless against the abuses of the prerogative state.
36:15
“ Our Only Hope Will Come Through Rebellion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOlg_2qAbUA” (2014)

Federer as Religious Experience, New York Times, August 20, 2006
Essays

Kenneth Arrow, “The Organization of Economic Activity: Issues Pertinent to the Choice of Market versus Non-market Allocation” (1969)
1950s-1960s

Source: Social Theoryː Its Situation and Its Task (1987), p. 205

Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic (2018)
How I became a Hindu (1982)
Variant: To me, Dharma had always been a matter of moral norms, external rules and regulations, do's and don'ts, enforced on life by an act of will. Now I was made to see Dharma as a multi dimensional movement of man's inner law of being, his psychic evolution, his spiritual growth, and his spontaneous building of an outer life for himself and the community in which he lived.
Source: Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas (2005), Foreword, p. xiii
Source: "The Population Ecology of Organizations," 1977, p. 931
Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 163 (1984)
Through Our Enemies' Eyes (p. 106).
2000s

Abstract, 2009 edition:
Politics and Administration (1900)

Source: "The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields," 1983, p. 147; abstract
"Of Wasps and WASPs", p. 160
The Flamingo's Smile (1985)
The Pageant of Life (1964), On Writers
Source: Liberty Before Liberalism (1998), pp. 116-117
Christian Anarchy: Jesus’ Primacy Over the Powers (1987)

Communication, Power and Counter-power in the Network Society, 2007

Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.110
"Interrupting Your Life: An Ethics for the Coming Storm" (2014)
Karl Pearson made similar division of the sciences into abstract and concrete
Source: Classification and indexing in science (1958), Other Chapters, p. 154.

Pg 84.
Conquest of Abundance (2001 [posthumous])

Kremlin RU, http://kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2005/04/25/2031_type70029type82912_87086.shtml (25 April 2005)
2000 - 2005

Foreword to Slaughter of the Innocent, 1982, by Hans Ruesch.

“Norms cannot be applied à la carte.”
Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order on the right of self determination http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IntOrder/Pages/Reports.aspx.
2015, Report submitted to the UN General Assembly
Source: Systems theories (2006), p. 1.

Source: The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order (2011), p. 32
Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), p. 66

Source: Modernity — An Incomplete Project, 1983, p. 8-9

Source: Introduction to Systems Philosophy (1972), p. 120.

Source: Postmodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991), Chapter 1: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
2010s, North Korea's State Loyalty Advantage (December 2011)
Source: Everyone is African: How Science Explodes the Myth of Race (2015), p. 155.
" The Last of the Nasties? http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1996/feb/29/the-last-of-the-nasties," The New York Review of Books, 29 February 1996;
Review of The Lost World by Michael Crichton

Contemporary Thought and Politics (1974)

Interim report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred Maurice de Zayas http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/IntOrder/A.67.277_en.pdf.
2012

In Khushwant Singh's editor's page http://books.google.co.in/books?id=sNBOAAAAMAAJ, IBH Pub. Co., 1981, p. 4
Source: "Corporate social responsibility in business-to-business markets", 2013, p. 56; On Instrumental stakeholder theory
1960s, Modernist Painting (1960)

Source: The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century, (2000), p. 166
"Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg6hztuaw2k&t=1002, Gifford Lecture, University of Edinburgh

"Beyond terrorism: ISIS and other enemies of humanity" http://nypost.com/2014/08/20/beyond-terrorism-isis-and-other-enemies-of-humanity/, New York Post (August 20, 2014).
New York Post
—and get back to work.
" Shut up and let me think! Or why you should work on the foundations of quantum mechanics as much as you please http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.5619" (2013)

[Senators Introduce Assault Weapons Ban, November 8, 2017, w:Diane Feinstein, Diane, Feinstein, https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/11/senators-introduce-assault-weapons-ban]
On the introduction of the Assault Weapons Ban of 2017
Source: Systems theories (2006), p. 4.

Instead we shall speak of the normative function of the thinking process, which can guide the pictorial elements of thinking into any logically permissible structure.
The Philosophy of Space and Time (1928, tr. 1957)

1:30-34
2017 New Year's Resolutions for Millennials