Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches…

Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by…

— Edmund Burke

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action…

— Horace Mann

Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than…

— Camille Paglia

There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are people who…

— Dennis Kucinich

Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is usually commenced…

— Charles Lyell

Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our…

— Guillermo del Toro

Once you become a celebrity, you are no longer a person, but an archetype.

— Jennette McCurdy

I am the reality of all coyotes. The archetype. The epitome. You are just a reflection of me.

— Patricia Briggs

Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves and you…

— Connie Zweig

I think people have this stereotypical idea in their head of what a nerd is. People have said to me before, "You're not a…

— Chris Hardwick

Certain mystical philosophers have personified Destiny, and from this point of view each man's personal destiny is his archetype or "other self"--his "angel"--with whom…

— Charles le Gai Eaton

All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the…

— Carl Jung

Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.

— Amy Sherald

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

— Ernest Cline