Custom Quote by Joseph Wood Krutch

There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?

— Terence

Custom alone regulates morals.

— Anatole France

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

— Plato

Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life

— Anonymous

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.

— Bill Vaughan

Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.

— Valdemar W Setzer

Well, I believe in the idea of 'normal' in the way that I believe in the idea of logic. Or the idea of character.…

— Richard Ford

A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of…

— Lysander Spooner

“Freedom to order our own conduct in the sphere where material circumstances force a choice upon us, and responsibility for the arrangement of our…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it is right,…

— Samuel Johnson

Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense…

— Friedrich Nietzsche