We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people. — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
I'm trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own. — Megan McArdle Copy Share Image
Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe,… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned,… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
They get you when you're young. When you are a kid, you are conditioned. You are taught language, customs, and right and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom,… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
When I was a kid it was big news when someone flew around the world in a little aeroplane, but nobody cared… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
I think someone's biggest competition is themselves. I stand out as a 'fashion' designer and not to be confused with, (people who… — Ashley Purdy Copy Share Image
Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
We [ with Russel Crowe] had an Arabic coach there [ in the Body of Lies] that was really helpful, because it… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for… — Alan Bock Copy Share Image
“Anubis is associated with the mummification and protection of the dead for their journeys through Denver International Airport to the afterlife. He… — Stephen Moles Copy Share Image
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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