If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. — Florence King Copy Share Image
I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention. — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness. — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
We only have one future, and it will be made of our dreams, if we have the courage to challenge convention. — Soichiro Honda Copy Share Image
“Rules, conventions, morals, reality itself: all exist so long as their existence is convenient to the preservation of power. Otherwise, they, like… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
Prisoners, according to the law, who are non-U.S. citizens and are detained outside the U.S. - including in Guantanamo Bay - are… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people… — Ralph Brown Copy Share Image
I like 'Star Wars.' I mean, I don't go to the conventions and dress up like Obi-Wan Kenobi or anything, but I… — Mackenzie Rosman 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
I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you… — Gary Bauer 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
Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering,… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining,… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
Yeah, it's not that I wanted to do a painting, I wanted to do writing like that. What jolted me about Jasper… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
It is indeed impossible to describe reality 'in itself', but that does not mean that our lives are answerable to nothing but… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
History of America, Part I (1776-1966): Declaration of Independence, Constitutional Convention, Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, Great Depression, New… — Norman Chad Copy Share Image
Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
Still,[...] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is based upon… — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
One of the metaphors of the book is the carpet. Not just the flying carpet, but the carpet as a woven surface… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
I have seen American determination in people like Debbi Sommers. She runs a furniture rental business for conventions in Las Vegas. When… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Is it permitted for Catholics to be present at, or to take part in, conventions, gatherings, meetings, or societies of non-Catholics which… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
I also remember when I watched Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer [1990] at, like, age 15. That scared the crap out… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
It is a great problem for the true international agenda of human rights that the United States, uniquely among industrialised countries, has… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags… — P. J. O'Rourke 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
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