Every thing useful and beneficial to man, seems to be connected with obedience to the laws of his nature, the inclinations, the… — Samuel Williams Copy Share Image
“Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There are a few things that were disconcerting, the stories about the private security firm not having enough people, supposed strike of… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
in America, far too large a portion of the diet consists of animal food. As a nation, the Americans are proverbial for… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“Traditions that cease to evolve render themselves irrelevant or obsolete. And what's the problem with inventing new performance practices? Are customs being… — David Cutler Copy Share Image
I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
In investment management today, everybody wants not only to win, but to have a yearly outcome path that never diverges very much… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
Inside the modern city, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are probably more communities, more differing customs, traditions, aspirations, and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
I should also say that apart from the negotiations that are taking place within the WTO, we are ourselves involved in all… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It was stone carvers in ancient Rome, scribes in the Middle Ages, all the way through Gutenberg to the present day. That's… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
...What are numbers knit By force or custom? Man who man would be, Must rule the empire of himself; in it Must… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
I started doing commercials in 2008 right after we released 'Death Race,' and the reason was that I spent two years prepping… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination,… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Thus it is that Pope Innocent III states [De Consuetudine] that, it is necessary to obey the Pope in all things as… — Pope Innocent I Copy Share Image
Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I used a fifties Les Paul custom on most of the stuff. I also used a Strat, a newer Strat. I had… — Tracii Guns Copy Share Image
Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing Goddess, to thy shrine we come. Thy… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs… — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act, what are… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
Mercedes nursed a special grievance - the grievance of sex. She was pretty and soft, and had been chivalrously treated all her… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Cannibalism to a certain moderate extent is practised among several of the primitive tribes in the Pacific, but it is upon the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Laughter is a most healthful exercise; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the… — Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland Copy Share Image
It is also a fact that people who are isolated and alienated in their neighborhoods as a result of the large number… — Carl I. Hagen Copy Share Image
The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
Since the women are the ones who bear the babies, and there's nothing we can do about that, our laws and customs… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets,… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
![“No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name…” quote by Nelson Mandela](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d3a/nelson-mandela-248_bias_no-one-in-my-family-had-ever-attended-sc_2221073.jpg)
![“The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the language, habits, and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they, or their…” quote by George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dba/george-washington-257_advantage_the-policy-or-advantage-of-immigration-t_2798211.jpg)
![“The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of ourselves! to sell the most precious property we boast, our time;--and to sacrifice it to every prattling impertinent who chooses to demand it!” quote by Fanny Burney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d6b/fanny-burney-7403_boast_the-laws-of-custom-make-our-returning-a_580819.jpg)
![“Thus it is that Pope Innocent III states [De Consuetudine] that, it is necessary to obey the Pope in all things as long as he, himself, does not go against the universal customs of the Church, but should he go against the universal customs of the Church, 'he need not be followed' . . .” quote by Pope Innocent I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/36f/pope-innocent-i-87387_all-things_thus-it-is-that-pope-innocent-iii-states_1261278.jpg)
