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By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion (Custom Quotes)
Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost (Custom Quotes)
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room; nor know how to conduct myself in any circumstances, nor what to feel in any relation of life (Custom Quotes)
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to (Custom Quotes)
We must pass through the barriers of language and race, of geography and religion, of custom and tradition and we must build on a common foundation (Custom Quotes)
The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education (Custom Quotes)
The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag of hospitality to insure a very considerable amount of custom (Custom Quotes)
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law (Custom Quotes)
Having done these things, they made the sacrifices prescribed by custom lest they be found lacking in filial piety (Custom Quotes)
Morality is the custom of one’s country and the current feeling of one’s peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country (Custom Quotes)
Out of respect for custom he treats me as if all women were equally worthless. He gives custom more respect than he gives me (Custom Quotes)
Only this incident inseparable every custom must have, viz., that it be consonant to reason; for how long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law (Custom Quotes)
Words being arbitrary must owe their power to association, and have the influence, and that only, which custom has given them. Language is the dress of thought (Custom Quotes)
America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and the hold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand circumstances (Custom Quotes)
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man’s life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs (Custom Quotes)
Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom (Custom Quotes)
Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice, it is merely custom (Custom Quotes)
Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it (Custom Quotes)
Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment (Custom Quotes)
Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low (Custom Quotes)
They talk as they are wont, not as I merit; traduce by custom, as most dogs do bark (Custom Quotes)
Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant (Custom Quotes)
Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of this world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom (Custom Quotes)
From a common custom of swearing men easily slide into perjury; therefore, if thou wouldst not be perjured, do not use thyself to swear (Custom Quotes)
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned (Custom Quotes)
It will probably be conceded that it is desirable people should exercise their understandings, and that an intelligent following of custom, or even occasionally an intelligent deviation from custom, is better than a blind and simply mechanical adhesion to it (Custom Quotes)
You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours (Custom Quotes)
According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life (Custom Quotes)
It’s very hard to adapt something. You end up changing it too much to make a good movie out of it. I prefer to work with things that are custom made for my kind of animation (Custom Quotes)
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 (Custom Quotes)