“[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people. — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
I think it is important also to recognize that our Customs border protection officers who secure our borders and conduct inspections of… — Kendrick Meek Copy Share Image
All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom,… — Mark Twain 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
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
Language surely does affect our thoughts, rather than just labeling them for the sake of labeling them. Most obviously, language is the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
It would truly be a fine thing if men suffered themselves to be guided by reason, that they should acquiesce in the… — Francois de la Noue Copy Share Image
...we see God working in terms of Jewish culture to reach Jews, yet, refusing to impose Jewish customs on Gentiles. Instead non-Jews… — Charles H. Kraft Copy Share Image
People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which everything-our discourses,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
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
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
We [ with Russel Crowe] had an Arabic coach there [ in the Body of Lies] that was really helpful, because it… — Leonardo DiCaprio 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
Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for… — Alan Bock Copy Share Image
“Anubis is associated with the mummification and protection of the dead for their journeys through Denver International Airport to the afterlife. He… — Stephen Moles Copy Share Image
Since the discovery of oxygen the civilised world has undergone a revolution in manners and customs. The knowledge of the composition of… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands… — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Copy Share Image
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
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