Benjamin Wittes

The idea that the president doesn't interfere in law-enforcement investigative matters is one of our deep normative expectations of the modern presidency. But it is not a matter of law. Legally, if the president of the United States wants to direct the specific conduct of investigations, that is his constitutional prerogative.

American Journalist

Michel Foucault

We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker'-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.

French Historian

David Novak

All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is to think or what one is to do. Every prescribed thought has some practical implication; every prescribed act has some theoretical implication.

American Theologian

Martha Nussbaum

I have spent a lot of my career working on normative political philosophy, developing the 'capabilities approach' to social justice. I have also spent a lot of my career working on the structure of the emotions, and their role in human life.

American Philosopher

Bernard Werber

Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone.

French Writer

Andrew Solomon

People still ask my husband and me which of us is the mom - which, as one lesbian friend pointed out to me, is like asking which chopstick is the fork. This pressure on us to embody normative traditions can be paralysing.

Writer

Lawrence Kohlberg

The normative theoretical claim that a higher stage is philosophically a better stage is one necessary part of a psychological explanation of sequential stage movement.

American Educator

Andrew Breitbart

The anti-big-government movement is pure. Its participants represent something close to what used to be considered normative in this country.

American Businessman

Dennis Prager

Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.

Jonathan Sacks

I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.

British Clergyman

Normative relates to enforcing rules that keep society running smoothly.

Law and Order

Even if something is normative, it doesn't mean everyone will follow it.

Not Always Followed

Normative often describes ideal standards, what should be rather than what is.

Ideal Situations

Normative can imply pressure to conform to societal expectations.

Expectation Pressure

In sociology, normative often relates to behaviors that society deems normal or appropriate.

Cultural Norms

Normative influences can greatly affect teenage behavior and identity.

Teen Influence

 has not embraced the power of participation. New power is not inherently positive. In fact, this isn't an normative argument that we're making, there are many good things about new power, but it can produce bad outcomes. More participation, more peer coordination, sometimes distorts outcomes and there are some things,

Jeremy Heimans: What new...

 If that's what you think you're experiencing, please, please do go seek help. I'm talking about a different state of mind that we all live in, where the light and the dark move together. And I am saying that right now, our culture is afraid of the dark. And that all this normative sunshine

The Hidden Power of Sad...

 But when the small group is teenage girls who want to stay anorexic by choice, then we're horrified. What's happened is that the normative goals of the support groups that we're used to, came from the institutions that were framing them, and not from the infrastructure.

Clay Shirky: Institutions...

 but how do we, as a world, pool our best science, our best resources, our best ways of working, our best manufacturing, our best clinical trials, to move this forward as fast as possible? The WHO is a global organization whose job is this normative function,

The quest for the...

 preserving the important ecological features. And then those other streets in there are auto-free streets. So instead of bulldozing, leveling the site and building right up to the river, this green edge was something that really wasn't normative in China

7 principles for...

 And while the babaylan was a female role, there were also, in fact, male practitioners in the spiritual realm. Reports from early Spanish chroniclers contain several references to male shamans who did not conform to normative Western masculine standards.

The gender-fluid history...

 normative religion and so it was at the very moment that these texts were being standardized and codified they're made from animal skin also called parchment and it can be the animal skins that were used were varied either goat sheep or

Mysterious, Ancient...

 and also to collectivity, without polarizing the two into two different opposites? Of course the political agendas in the world has been very obsessed, polarizing the two against each other into different, very normative ideas.

Playing with space and...

 in the first decade of life, but it can be very confusing for parents, because it is quite normative for children to act in a cross-gender play and way, and, in fact, there are studies that show

Norman Spack: How I help...

 that we get to exercise our normative power -- the power to create reasons for yourself, to make yourself into the kind of person for whom country living is preferable to the urban life.