The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Christmas is a glorious time of the year, simple in origin, deep in meaning, beautiful in tradition and custom, rich in memories,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I get it custom, you a customer. You aint customed to going through Customs, you aint been nowhere, huh? — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Our self-love is mortified, when we think our opinions, and even our tastes, customs, and dresses, either arraigned or condemned; as, on… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
Yet, Puerto Ricos economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even… — Dick Thornburgh Copy Share Image
Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
It would truly be a fine thing if men suffered themselves to be guided by reason, that they should acquiesce in the… — Francois de la Noue Copy Share Image
...we see God working in terms of Jewish culture to reach Jews, yet, refusing to impose Jewish customs on Gentiles. Instead non-Jews… — Charles H. Kraft Copy Share Image
People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which everything-our discourses,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Real knowing comes up when we stand in the appropriate place. But usually we don’t. First we want to understand something according… — Dainin Katagiri Copy Share Image
It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
You have this certain about of responsibility to play a fictitious character and you have a script that's guiding you and the… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
All is made clear,regarding Abraham and Sarah's traversal into Egypt, when we realize what biblicists meant by the term "Egypt." As Ralph… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
When I was a child, for a public/civil servant to be caught in corrupt practices, that individual will be a pariah. He… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I resolved to claim for my sex all that an impartial Creator had bestowed, which, by custom and a perverted application of… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
I'd see the bus pass every day… But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Each step of your current journey will take you to new and interesting worlds of opportunity and as every intrepid explorer knows,… — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
The importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art. — Raja Ravi Varma Copy Share Image
Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences. — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is in you, have free course to… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
The Navy has a custom-if a ship runs aground, the captain is relieved regardless of who is responsible. That's how Abu Ghraib… — Rand Beers Copy Share Image
I'm only stopped by people in uniform, whether it's customs people, janitors, or the FBI - they all watch 'The Wire.' Sadly,… — Dominic West Copy Share Image
... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
