Customs Quotes

252 quotes by 221 authors

With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could be in favour… — Kenneth Clarke
We should demand that (Customs and Border Protection) focus on the true priority that we face on the war on terror... Stripping small amounts of… — David Vitter
I don't like people who take drugs... Customs men for example. — Mick Miller
Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back to Britain. You're… — Steven Morrissey
The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs… — Saint Augustine
It is necessary to obey a Pope in all things as long as he does not go against the universal customs of the Church, but… — Pope Innocent III
For what concerns diversity of rites in the sacred liturgy, the Apostolic See has always made its position clear: not only it does not condemn… — Pope Leo XIII
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
No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing… — Hannah Arendt
Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced . . .… — Carlton J. H. Hayes
I'm only stopped by people in uniform, whether it's customs people, janitors, or the FBI - they all watch 'The Wire.' Sadly, beautiful, glamorous women… — Dominic West
I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs… — Andy Rooney
Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police and criminal justice… — D. Todd Christofferson
It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands of years. It… — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
It is not your rightâ€”based on YOUR traditions, YOUR customs and YOUR habitsâ€”to deny animals THEIR freedom so you can harm them, enslave them and… — Gary Yourofsky
American soldiers [are] going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the… — John F. Kerry
Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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

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