George Will

Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced.

Journalist

Robert Caro

Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that's written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that.

American Writer

Mae Jemison

I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.

American Astronaut

Rudolf Arnheim

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.

German Artist

Eleanor Roosevelt

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

American First Lady

Caterina Fake

In building a social network, the standards and mores of a community are its lifeblood; one does not lightly 'experiment' with these, and LinkedIn is exactly right to defend them.

American Businesswoman

John Kessel

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

American Author

Gwen Moore

It is very frightening to see a resurgence of the old mores, or lack thereof, regarding women's rights to their own bodies.

American Politician

Christina Binkley

Our social mores no longer conform to a world where nice girls wear skirts that don't cling.

David Ogilvy

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

English Businessman

Understand local mores to avoid offense when interacting with different cultures.

Cultural Sensitivity

Mores can be unspoken yet widely recognized within a community.

Social Nuances

Mores can change over time, reflecting society's evolving values.

Time Variations

Flouting local mores can lead to social exclusion or legal penalties.

Consequences

Mores carry a strong moral implication of what 'ought' to be done.

Moral Expectations

Mores help establish a group's unique cultural or social identity.

Group Identity

 representation it's not showing actual intercourse but rather kind of the dalliance that might lead up to it it's got lots of clues in it about ancient Roman sexual mores for one thing it doesn't have a sense of privacy we think that privacy is the most important thing about sexual activity but here we have a

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 have this distorted view of how a decent loving relationship must start and then people do this thing okay I have didn't Europe you made such an important point there because if we give the view of love and romance that we want to be true and that's what percolates then we established culture and social mores

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 they said that is the dumbest thing you've ever said. Who have you ever known who woke up in the morning -- that turned black? In other words, they were fixed in the concrete mores and attitudes they had inherited. They would not take the hypothetical seriously,

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 challenging entrenched mores and demanding care. Karnam, the wife of a deeply conservative preacher, convinced her husband to adopt family planning because mMitra told her that spacing between pregnancies is necessary. And the change is intergenerational.

Aparna Hegde: The...

 In the novel, she interrogates the culture of her native India, including its social mores and colonial history. One of her focuses is the caste system, a way of classifying people by hereditary social class that is thousands of years old.

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 And though her heroines might ridicule senseless social mores, Austen fully understood the practical importance of maintaining appearances. At the time she was writing, a wealthy marriage was a financial necessity for most young women,

The wicked wit of Jane...

 and exchanged blows meant to be codes for affection; once out of childhood you'd never again know the shock of your father's whiskers on your cheek, not until mores at last had evolved,

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 you look at all of this and you say this person was not only plugging into the emergence social and cultural mores of our day understanding what are important

Neil deGrasse Tyson on...

 just saying love he was great oh oh thank you because I've rated that Mitel the mores were going to be shortened so much being on this stage

What I learned at...

 here among the mountains and mores of northern Scotland is a bird that

Mores

The accepted traditional customs and behaviors of a society or community.

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The established norms or standards considered as a moral or legal obligation.

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