Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people… — David Liss Copy Share Image
...What are numbers knit By force or custom? Man who man would be, Must rule the empire of himself; in it Must… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
I started doing commercials in 2008 right after we released 'Death Race,' and the reason was that I spent two years prepping… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination,… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
In investment management today, everybody wants not only to win, but to have a yearly outcome path that never diverges very much… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Inside the modern city, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are probably more communities, more differing customs, traditions, aspirations, and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
It was stone carvers in ancient Rome, scribes in the Middle Ages, all the way through Gutenberg to the present day. That's… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I should also say that apart from the negotiations that are taking place within the WTO, we are ourselves involved in all… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
For what concerns diversity of rites in the sacred liturgy, the Apostolic See has always made its position clear: not only it… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets,… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It has become the custom in our country to expect all Chief Executives, from the President down, to conduct activities analogous to… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We should demand that (Customs and Border Protection) focus on the true priority that we face on the war on terror... Stripping… — David Vitter Copy Share Image
Trying to get a common set of trading rules right down to very simple things like paperless customs arrangements and telecommunications services… — Andrew Robb Copy Share Image
The attributes of liminality are necessarily ambiguous... Liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned… — Victor Turner Copy Share Image
We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with… — Richard V. Allen Copy Share Image
Thus it is that Pope Innocent III states [De Consuetudine] that, it is necessary to obey the Pope in all things as… — Pope Innocent I Copy Share Image
Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I used a fifties Les Paul custom on most of the stuff. I also used a Strat, a newer Strat. I had… — Tracii Guns Copy Share Image
Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing Goddess, to thy shrine we come. Thy… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Mercedes nursed a special grievance - the grievance of sex. She was pretty and soft, and had been chivalrously treated all her… — Jack London Copy Share Image
How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act, what are… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
![“The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the language, habits, and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they, or their…” quote by George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dba/george-washington-257_advantage_the-policy-or-advantage-of-immigration-t_2798211.jpg)
![“The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of ourselves! to sell the most precious property we boast, our time;--and to sacrifice it to every prattling impertinent who chooses to demand it!” quote by Fanny Burney](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d6b/fanny-burney-7403_boast_the-laws-of-custom-make-our-returning-a_580819.jpg)
![“No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name…” quote by Nelson Mandela](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d3a/nelson-mandela-248_bias_no-one-in-my-family-had-ever-attended-sc_2221073.jpg)
![“Thus it is that Pope Innocent III states [De Consuetudine] that, it is necessary to obey the Pope in all things as long as he, himself, does not go against the universal customs of the Church, but should he go against the universal customs of the Church, 'he need not be followed' . . .” quote by Pope Innocent I](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/36f/pope-innocent-i-87387_all-things_thus-it-is-that-pope-innocent-iii-states_1261278.png)
