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Societal norms Quotes

"Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful."

"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."

"We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society."

"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from"

"It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement."

"I am not gay, although I wish I were just to piss off homophobes"

"People like you to be something, preferably what they are"

"Even so at times I think I will never be like other people but is this exactly what I would want"

"The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!"

"When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate."

"When you're a girl, you have to be everything, You have to be dope at what you do, but you have to be super sweet, and you have to be sexy…and you have to be nice. It's like, I can't be all those things at once: I'm a human being."

"If you hate your parents, the man, or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree"

"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers"

"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get."

"The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude."

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