Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
While in the course of ages the nucleus of social custom inscribed in law has been subjected to but slight and gradual… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The slaves of custom and established mode, With pack-horse constancy we keep the road Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Thousand years ago, we all descended from Africans who left the continent. Those ancestors, we will never know their name. We can… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Learn to pay attention to your body with the relaxed attitude of gratitude, trust, curiosity and unconditional love rather than being pushed… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
When the rich build bigger, they shift the frame of reference that shapes the demands of the near rich, who travel in… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I'd see the bus pass every day… But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . .… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible,… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the… — Dan Poynter Copy Share Image
