Mores Quotes

35 quotes by 33 authors

Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its rights. It considers… — Alexis de Tocqueville
All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Adde, quod ingÃ©nues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle. — Ovid
I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic . . . the term "mores"… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant… — Will Eisner
Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing… — David Sedaris
Socially, Philadelphia was still a fairly provincial city, its business community governed by the mores of the Main Line. Politically, it was a cauldron of… — Andrea Mitchell
The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to… — Jane Smiley
In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang… — Emanuel Celler
A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation… — George Will
Big Data allows us to see patterns we have never seen before. This will clearly show us interdependence and connections that will lead to a… — Tiffany Shlain
One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less… — David Halberstam
The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a… — Rudolf Arnheim
Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture. — Richard Leakey
As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK.… — Daniel H. Wilson
Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them. — David Ogilvy
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but… — Eleanor Roosevelt
How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find… — Anna Quindlen
When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable. — Emile Durkheim

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