Customs Quotes - Page 27

• Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God? If you do, don't delay for a moment in attacking it. Resolve at once to lay it aside. Nothing darkens the eyes of the mind so much, and deadens the conscience so surely, as an allowed sin. It may be a little one, but it is not any less dangerous.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Eye, Sight

  "Thoughts for Young Men". Book by J. C. Ryle, June, 2002.

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• Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did not in some way close the path of glory.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Dancing, Ballet, Way

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• Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Philosophy, Men, Names

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.87, Hackett Publishing

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• It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Animal, Organization, Habit

  Alfred Russel Wallace (1869). “The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise”, p.267, London, Macmillan

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• We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.

  Richard V. Allen

  Soil, Common, Habit

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• For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had the power to prevent and/or punish this violence through religion, law, or custom, openly or tacitly approved it. .....The reason violence against women and children is finally out in the open is that activists have brought it to global attention.

  Riane Eisler

  Children, Women, Law

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• Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Consistency, Details, Found

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.12

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• It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Power, Thinking, Divine Right

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• Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror, violence, and the spray of semen...[Lesbianism is] an ideological, political and philosophical means of liberation of all women from heterosexual tyranny.

  Cheryl Clarke

  Philosophical, Mean, Heterosexuality Is

  "Lesbianism: an act of resistance". Book by Cheryl Clarke, 1981.

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• Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine were carrying Greek civilization, distributing it around the Mediterranean and beyond, one amphora at a time. Wine displaced beer to become the most civilized and sophisticated of drinks—a status it has maintained ever since, thanks to its association with the intellectual achievements of Ancient Greece.

  Tom Standage

  Drinking, Wine, Beer

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• If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.

  Herodotus

  Country, Believe, Opportunity

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• If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own

  Herodotus

  Men, Bidding, World

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• I wish I didn't get searched when I come through customs.
  I wish Christians stop beefin' with Muslims,
  Wish the poor didn't have to take welfare,
  Wish America had universal health care...
  Cause ain't no help here.

  Ed O.G.

  Christian, Rap, America

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• That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

  Lydia M. Child

  Reality, Wish, Important

  Letter to the Advocates of Woman's Suffrage, 1870.

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• All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances.

  Henry Abbey

  Book, Reality, Men

  Henry Abbey, “Eleusinia”

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• The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.

  Blaise Pascal

  Art, Order, Justice

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.184

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• Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

  Moritz Gudemann

  Men, Rights, Peer Pressure

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• Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.

  Blaise Pascal

  Simple, Reason, Accepted

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.

  John Stuart Mill

  Political, Age, Example

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.67, Cambridge University Press

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• In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.

  Jeff Hawkins

  School, People, United States

  "America’s Shameful Moments" by Jeff Hawkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2011.

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• Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Use, Microsoft, Demand

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• Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Genius, Monkeys

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

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• Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene... All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.

  Daniel Pipes

  Attitude, Hygiene, Cooking

  National Review, November 19, 1990.

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• Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 15, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Japan, Circles

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