Conventions Quotes

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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
There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment… — Michel de Montaigne
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
The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire… — Sergey Nechayev
Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers and… — Gustave Flaubert
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
If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading… — Mortimer Adler
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
Is it permitted for Catholics to be present at, or to take part in, conventions, gatherings, meetings, or societies of non-Catholics which aim to associate… — Pope Pius X
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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