Customs Quotes

252 quotes by 221 authors

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together:… — Francis Bacon
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of… — Ruth Benedict
I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct… — Buffalo Bill
I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. — Danny Boyle
If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear. — Jeb Bush
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. — Albert Camus
There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's… — Graydon Carter
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. — Dante Alighieri
The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for,… — George Washington
I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body,… — Alexander Shulgin
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become… — Friedrich Nietzsche
How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act, what are your habits, which… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall… — Samuel Johnson
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones. — Anatole France
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs. — Samuel Johnson
He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something peculiar… — Samuel Johnson

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