Customs Quote by Bertrand de Jouvenel

The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.

— John Stuart Mill

“The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at something better…

— John Stuart Mill

“No difference of rank, position, or birth is so great as the gulf that spearates the countless millions who use their head only in…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.

— Bill Vaughan

It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character; it…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

— Thomas Jefferson

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

— Charles Davenport

Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The…

— Thomas Paine