Customs Quotes

252 quotes by 216 authors

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of… — Alberto Moravia
The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be folly for… — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal. — Michael Jackson
Be dispensers of God's grace, not controllers. Don't be the Holy Spirit's customs agents, — Pope Francis
Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of life… — Philip K. Dick
We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it is making the… — Mary Catherine Bateson
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors. — Guy de Maupassant
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given… — Seneca the Younger
Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. — Mark Twain
Since the discovery of oxygen the civilised world has undergone a revolution in manners and customs. The knowledge of the composition of the atmosphere, of… — Justus von Liebig
I know you were just trying to help. But I passed the point of help a long time ago. Look, I know about your people… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold weather… — Ludwig von Mises
Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance as the title… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The decision we must make now is whether we will give our allegiance to outmoded and unjust customs or to the ethical demands of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral. — Vincent de Paul
Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play. — Virginia Woolf
Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners… — Victor Hugo
Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the… — Michel de Montaigne

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