Customs Quotes

252 quotes by 216 authors

The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live… — Nelson A. Miles
Mrs. Campbell once attempted to smuggle her pet Pekingese through customs by tucking him inside the upper part of her cape. "Everything was going splendidly,"… — Mrs. Patrick Campbell
To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere, let them read,… — Swami Vivekananda
Change often makes accepted customs into crimes. — Mason Cooley
The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethics… — Albert Schweitzer
Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience… — Charles Sturt
Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the… — Michelle Alexander
What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork. — Irene Nemirovsky
Freedom is where you can live, as pleases a brave heart; where you can live according to the customs and laws of your Fathers; where… — Ernst Moritz Arndt
It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of manners and customs.… — Swami Vivekananda
The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion,… — Ludwig von Mises
Thus it is that Pope Innocent III states [De Consuetudine] that, it is necessary to obey the Pope in all things as long as he,… — Pope Innocent I
Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or No Trespassing signs.… — Robert Moss
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is… — Mark Twain
Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that… — Peter Kropotkin
Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten. — Benjamin Franklin
In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the vivid and particular:… — William Strunk, Jr.
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be… — Harriet Martineau

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