Culture Quote by Jeffery Eugenides

Customs represent the experience of mankind.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own.

— Megan McArdle

You have to understand that under One Country, Two Systems, we are a separate customs authority in the same way we are a separate…

— Carrie Lam

The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.

— Sinclair Lewis

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

— Aaron Hill

I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be…

— Nelson Mandela

“Our culture confuses the pain of isolation with some impossible ideal of “self-sufficiency,” and then celebrates it.”

— Wayne Muller

“To be free of customs: “Custom clouds the true face of things”.”

— Stefan Zweig

“It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding…

— René Descartes

“culture – the collectively shared meaning”

— David Bohm

Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.

— Jacque Fresco