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Custom Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
- He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
- In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.
- The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear. — Jodi Picoult
- No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions… — Ruth Benedict
- The best interpreter of the law is custom. — Marcus Tullius Cicero