Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
We must be willing to begin with positive teaching, not with negative prohibitions, and be content to wait and to watch whilst… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We have a pride of who we are as Latinos, regardless if we're Puerto Rican, Dominican, Venezuelan, and we're very proud of… — Juan Luis Guerra Copy Share Image
Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
...you will do more harm than good by attempting to supplant old dogmas and customs with new dogmas. It will be the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
It's not an easy option. The essence of travel is letting go of habit and prejudice and relishing the unfamiliar. Food you've… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here… — Jeff Hawkins Copy Share Image
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Even as he would be guilty of falsehood who would, in the name of another person, proffer things that are not committed… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
This conclusion of trade agreements that go beyond the scope of mere tariff agreements, customs agreements, are most important and I'm very… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable… — Blaise Pascal 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
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
The attributes of liminality are necessarily ambiguous... Liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned… — Victor Turner Copy Share Image
I started designing and getting into cutting and sewing, I also started learning how to do patterns and tech packs. From there… — Fred Foster Copy Share Image
There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When the film and music industries declined in the wake of increasingly conservative Muslim laws and social customs in Pakistan, many of… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
