Calvin Coolidge Quotes

The Social Sciences will concern themselves with the rationalization of social control... the control of human behavior.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements

That's why every society on the planet has very definite rules, ideas about how sex should be regulated, how sex should be expressed, what's okay, what's not okay. And I guess we do live in a place, and have for a long time, where there's more openness and there's more willingness to tolerate different kinds of behavior, but with that comes people creating other rules and other kinds of controls. It's always going to be a question of what's acceptable and what isn't and what's the danger point and what rouses people's contempt and what people are allowed to get away with.

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.

Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

If a community decides this is how you're going to dress and these are the punishments, who are we to say different?

Increasing globalization of the world [is] … affecting the ways in which sexuality is understood, experienced, and regulated.

It is society which, fashioning us in its image, fills us with religious, political, and moral beliefs that control our actions.

Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements . . . are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations.

The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge.

By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice.

Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.

Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated.

If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal" and "criminal," for, in the strength to set standards, resides the strength to maintain control.

We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.

Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects.

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power.

We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly.