Culture Quote by Blaise Pascal

Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.

— Blaise Pascal

Consensus is something you have if you cannot have agreement.

— Forbes Burnham

“Custom brings predictability, and predictability carries its own comforts.”

— Robert James Waller

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us…

— David Hume

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

How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?

— Terence

If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.

— Winston Churchill

Rules must be respected... and if one wants to change then a consensus is required.

— Fumio Kishida

People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.

— Brenna Yovanoff

Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.

— Mason Cooley

I prefer clarity over agreement

— Dennis Prager

Disagreement is something normal.

— Dalai Lama