Convention Quotes

318 Convention quotes by 269 unique authors

Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist — Democritus
What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it. — Yoweri Museveni
To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms;… — Malcolm Bradbury
London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement… — Peter Ackroyd
We are met today in a general conference. Sometimes, I hear, the people feel, some of them, that perhaps we are not quite as "peppy"… — J. Reuben Clark
On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the… — Hans Blix
I'm creative because I did an icon navigation while everyone else on the planet sticks to words? No, it just means I didn't want to… — Unknown Author
Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological… — Paul Watzlawick
A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature. — Murray Kempton
We must institute a coup d'etat, a third revolution, which must beat down anarchy. Dissolve the Paris Commune and destroy its sections! Dissolve the clubs,… — Jacques Pierre Brissot
One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to the Convention. It… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention,… — Irving Babbitt
Presented memorial to [Constitutional Convention] committee on sufferage. Was very courteously treated. We all felt it a great day in the history of Utah. The… — Unknown Author
Do one of three things. One, go and find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing -- but… — Saul Alinsky
I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary. — Hunter S. Thompson
Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works. — Stewart Brand
Who on earth invented the silly convention that it is boring or impolite to talk shop? Nothing is more interesting to listen to, especially if… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Whenever we have seen a crevice in the crust of convention, we have called attention to it, because we have hoped for a force underneath,… — Franz Marc
It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away… — Martin Buber
We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration. — Romano Prodi

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