Culture Quote by John Stuart Mill

“Customs are formed, and the descendants of men are trapped therein. The generations pass without a chance to weed out the foolish from the…

— Noriko Ogiwara

“Even lords ought to follow the customs.”

— Ken Follett

A deep meaning often lies in old customs.

— Friedrich Schiller

“Traditions are just nonsense that binds, and whilst the nonsense might take on a different hue, the binding is universal.”

— Vinay Patel

“One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it…

— Gustave Flaubert

“He was strict and hard and had perfectly clear and definite ideas about duty, where the others were concerned. For oneself one can always…

— Hjalmar Söderberg

“Common decency, good manners, kindness and hard work were treated as peculiarities”

— Ruth Hogan

Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life

— Anonymous

“Rules are for people with the luxury of time.”

— Renee Carlino

“necessity had no respect for law. Even custom must bow to it at times.”

— S. M. Stirling

“Character, not circumstance, makes the person.”

— Booker T. Washington

“The king who deals harshly with merchants who come from afar closes the door of well-being upon the whole of his subjects. When do…

— Saadi