Societal Norm Quotes

“Most often we call a person intelligent when they learn to conform to the societal norm. Are they wise?”
― Debasish Mridha

“But now, he was conscious of his own impatience with what he had begun to see as the sinister pedantry of therapy, its suggestion that life was somehow reparable, that there existed a societal norm and that the patient was being guided toward conforming to it.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life