Mores Quotes
35 quotes by 33 authors
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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
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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.
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Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.
— Ovid
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.
— David Ogilvy
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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
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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
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When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.
— Emile Durkheim
Who Wrote These Mores Quotes
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