Custom Quotes

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What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to… — Saint Augustine
The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it… — Saint Augustine
If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and… — James Madison
Custom alone regulates morals. — Anatole France
In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by whatever name they… — Joseph Story
By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom. — Miguel de Cervantes
Look, we're Americans: optimistic, addicted to the quick fix, constantly on the hunt for the new and exotic. It's much easier for us to accept… — Dennis Miller
Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always. — Mary Wortley Montagu
By journalistic custom and D.C. law, of course, reporters don't carry guns to news conferences -- and certainly not when the person at the lectern… — Dana Milbank
I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once ever year.... My custom is, to read four to… — John Quincy Adams
Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying… — Jonathan Swift
Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self… — Erich Fromm
Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe. But breaking custom… — Robert A. Heinlein
No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an… — Nelson Mandela
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to… — Alfred Russel Wallace
For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had the power to… — Riane Eisler

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