Culture Quote by Megan McArdle

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

— Anonymous

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

— Sinclair Lewis

Customs represent the experience of mankind.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can…

— Dee Hock

Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the…

— Millicent Fenwick

“The aping of shared customs is an indispensable step in the process of individualisation”

— Jeffery Eugenides

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

— Aaron Hill

All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

Culture is defined by the ones least refined. And you'll be left behind, if you don't fit in.

— Offspring

“The culture and ideology fostered in this globalization process relate largely to “lifestyle” themes and goods and their acquisition; and they tend to weaken…

— Noam Chomsky

In many societies the domestic social costs of adjustment to changing patterns of comparative advantage are believed to outweigh the advantages of further trade…

— Robert Gilpin