Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
“India has many customs and rituals that may seem bizarre to anyone not used to its distinctive culture. It is a strange… — Hanadi Falki Copy Share Image
All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. I love taking… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
If you are curious, you won't be satisfied with the "tyranny of custom." People stuck in that rut might say "why?" and… — John Medina Copy Share Image
Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
One of the paradoxes of liberal societies arises from the commitment to tolerance. A society committed to respecting the viewpoints and customs… — Martha Minow Copy Share Image
Rule by the statist elite is not benign or simply a matter of who happens to be in office: it is rule… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a… — 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
And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Yet, Puerto Ricos economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even… — Dick Thornburgh Copy Share Image
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are… — William Shakespeare 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
Customs is punishment for those who travel. This will teach you for traveling to our country! — Godfrey Copy Share Image
America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
