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Customs Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- 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…
- The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs.
- Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.
- Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.
More Customs Quotes
- Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but… — Francis Bacon
- We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- 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
- 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
- There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones. — Alfred Lord Tennyson