You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda,… — Leon Jouhaux Copy Share Image
By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so… — David Milne Copy Share Image
That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
Every day that goes by shortens our opportunity of booking it successfully. Whether it's members pulling their condos for personal use, whether… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Every government has signed up to a voluntary legal commitment under at least one of the international covenants and conventions based on… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing - no convention - can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment… — John Green Copy Share Image
I like to play with the conventions around what we expect of paintings historically. But I also like to play with the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine. And believe me, you are no Thomas Jefferson. (at 1992 Republican party… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
“One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions. — Peter Brimelow Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The advancements that women have made are very threatening to men in the job place. There haven't been that many women in… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
I met a bunch of comic-book writers at the Metropolis convention and there was such an interesting discussion about the story of… — Helen Slater Copy Share Image
