America Quote by Paula Gunn Allen Download Open image “In America, law substitutes for custom.” — Paula Gunn Allen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare America Customs Law Substitutes
Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In general, laws are tailored to suit the needs of the ones making them. — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law! — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
My mother told me stories all the time... And in all of those stories she told me who I was, who I was supposed… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
Breath is life, and the intermingling of breaths is the purpose of good living. This is in essence the great principle on which all… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
The hoop dancer dances within what encircles him, demonstrating how the people live in motion within the circling spirals of time and space. They… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
