Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt. — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital,… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Mrs. Campbell once attempted to smuggle her pet Pekingese through customs by tucking him inside the upper part of her cape. "Everything… — Mrs. Patrick Campbell Copy Share Image
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs,… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation… — Herodotus 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
The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary, and running, without control, into the most distant… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention… — Grover Cleveland 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
We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and… — John Lachs Copy Share Image
When the rich build bigger, they shift the frame of reference that shapes the demands of the near rich, who travel in… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality'… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
It must be therefore, since the enemies of the Jews belonged to the most diverse races, since they lived in countries very… — Bernard Lazare Copy Share Image
I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put… — Alexander Shulgin Copy Share Image
You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I would say that God custom designed my weaknesses. I am not making God responsible for my sins. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters... — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
