Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred…

but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

“...religion ceases to be religion when its poetic authority is recast as civic authority.”

— James P. Carse

There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that…

— George Santayana

Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.

— George Santayana

My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.

— Ernest Cline

On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions…

— C. D. Innes

Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags along behind…

— P. J. O'Rourke

As so often, a political event involving Donald Trump looks like swinging wildly between melodrama and farce. The Republican National Convention in Cleveland has…

— Mark Colvin

The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws in the…

— Jostein Gaarder

The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention?…

— James Fallows

I joked at our National Convention that our party was nominating a candidate for president who was charismatic, larger than life, memorable, so they…

— Mike Pence

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality…

— George Bernard Shaw

[The Massachusetts constitution] resembles the federal Constitution of 1787 more closely than any of the other revolutionary state constitutions. It was also drawn up…

— Gordon S. Wood

[James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger. He used…

— Noam Chomsky

All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that…

— Havelock Ellis