Implicit Rules Quotes

Some laws are not written, but are more decisive than any written law.

MMA has a lot of those things that you're not allowed to talk about; like, they're completely off-limits. So you have to make a joke out of it.

Why don't women say what they want, why wait to be asked? Do women intuit that it is unacceptable to appear ambitious?

We so often tend to think our democracies are ruled by procedures and laws, but they are also governed by implicit rules and assumptions and one of them is the ability to feel shame - that you can be shamed.

A lot hinges on the fact that, in most circumstances, people are not allowed to hit you with a mallet. They put up all kinds of visible and invisible signs that say, 'Do not do this' in the hope that it'll work, but if it doesn't, then they shrug, because there is, really, no real mallet at all.

In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.