Customs Quote by Baron de Montesquieu

We should understand that in the context of the US, where our legal system is based in settler colonialism, capitalism and white supremacy, changing…

— Dean Spade

When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing…

— Aristotle

Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.

— Sheryl WuDunn

Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

— Alexander Pope

Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the…

— Millicent Fenwick

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to…

— Catherynne M. Valente

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the…

— Benjamin Disraeli

In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind,…

— William Wordsworth

The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle…

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the…

— Hannah Arendt