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In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny… — John Stuart Mill
The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch… — Elizabeth I
Iâ€™m the god of funerals. I know every death custom in the worldâ€”how to die properly, how to prepare the body and soul for the… — Rick Riordan
All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it to looking for… — Jorge Luis Borges
Never; he will not: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry… — William Shakespeare
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable. — Pythagoras
People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of… — Sydney Smith
Durnik needs a tower somewhere in the Vale," Belgarath was saying. "I don't see why, father," Polgara replied. "All of Aldur's disciples have towers, Pol.… — David Eddings
To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
How do you get on with your father ' Beleth asked. 'Very well ' Pyrgus answered loyally although it was far from the truth. 'I… — Herbie Brennan
The old order changeth yielding place to new And God fulfills himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Comfort thyself:… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything… — John Stuart Mill
The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that… — James M. Barrie
We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with… — F. Sionil JosÃ©
Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is it the custom… — Steven Pinker
It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his… — Nikos Kazantzakis
What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right. — Tamora Pierce
History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang. — R. Scott Bakker
Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable. — Henry David Thoreau

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