America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters... — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If is a custom, More honor'd in the breach than the observance. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman. — Edward Gibbon 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
Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Turkey has a customs union with the E.U. - it still means there are checks on the border between Turkey and the… — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
It is also absolutely correct that some British folk customs have descended directly from pagan rituals, such ... the giving of presents… — Ronald Hutton Copy Share Image
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a… — Bill Vaughan 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
Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
. . . [Y]ou must understand that we have always considered the writing of books a hindrance to our work, and that… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I cared very little for the customs of my parents, the special things that we're supposed to… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
The tendency to cruelty should be watched in children and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
I wish I didn't get searched when I come through customs. I wish Christians stop beefin' with Muslims, Wish the poor didn't… — Ed O.G Copy Share Image
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it… — Samuel Johnson 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
We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and… — John Lachs Copy Share Image
What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall, Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all. Let muckworms who… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Christianity, just as much as Islam, teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don't have to make the case for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put… — Alexander Shulgin Copy Share Image
The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one another’s customs and opinions; respect for… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
And yet we check and chide The airy angels as they float about us, With rules of so-called wisdom, till they grow… — Frances Sargent Osgood 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
Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances. — Henry Abbey Copy Share Image
Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own. — Megan McArdle Copy Share Image
Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe,… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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