Authority Quote by Pindar

If you will not have rules, you will have rulers.

— Jake Auchincloss

A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

— Denis Waitley

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

— Rosamond Lehmann

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.

— Freya Stark

“As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.”

— Steve Krug

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage…

— Steven Pinker

Who rules our symbols, rules us.

— Alfred Korzybski

No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Society's the mother of convention.

— Carolyn Wells

There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that…

— George Santayana

You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.

— James Frey