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Customs Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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.…
- Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
- 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…
- All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these…
- These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in…
- The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages isImbecility: imbecility…
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- The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but… — Francis Bacon
- No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions… — Ruth Benedict
- I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving… — 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… — 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… — George Washington
- I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put… — 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… — 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… — Friedrich Nietzsche