Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The Jew is contrary to our being. ... He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation,… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
I brought my first fall/winter line to New York, and it was confiscated by U.S. Customs. They asked, 'What is the value… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag… — Robert Smith Surtees Copy Share Image
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day. — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television crews, all waiting for me… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will. If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
I can hardly bring myself to caution you against drinking, because I am persuaded that I am writing to a rational creature,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It was the custom when men received nominations to come to me for contributions, and I made them and considered them good… — Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
All is made clear,regarding Abraham and Sarah's traversal into Egypt, when we realize what biblicists meant by the term "Egypt." As Ralph… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
When I was a child, for a public/civil servant to be caught in corrupt practices, that individual will be a pariah. He… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make… — Robert Ruark Copy Share Image
It is an old custom of the servants of God to have some little prayer ready and to be frequently darting them… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
I like walking into the studio everyday and having completely custom, diverse artwork to do. And my clients keep the interesting ideas… — William Webb Copy Share Image
It was Shakespeare's notion that on this day birds begin to couple; hence probably arose the custom of sending fancy love-billets. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
It is unfair to ask Turkey to make a unilateral concession to take goods from Cyprus within the customs union when the… — Ali Babacan Copy Share Image
Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The Foreign Office works hard to remind people of local laws and customs as often they can be very different to British… — David Lidington Copy Share Image
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Preventing people from illegally immigrating to the United States should be the primary purpose of Customs and Border Protection. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I do not mean to suggest for a moment that all it takes to be a top executive is a custom-tailored European… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
