customs quotes

• There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. (Albert Camus) [willpower//customs/death]
• Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [customs]
• Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [society/virtue/customs]
• Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that this city was the melting pot; never before in history had so many people of such varied languages, customs, colors and culinary habits lived so amicably together. Although New York remains peaceful by most standards, this self-congratulation is now less often heard, since it was discovered some years ago that racial harmony depended unduly on the willingness of the blacks (and latterly the Puerto Ricans) to do for the other races the meanest jobs at the lowest wages and then to return to live by themselves in the worst slums. (John Kenneth Galbraith) [people/customs]
• Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. (Harriet Martineau) [customs/process/observation/customs]
• Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines --these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. (Henry Miller) [customs/beliefs/norm]
• Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature! (George Bernard Shaw) [customs/nature]
• Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. (John Updike) [customs/change/people/change]
• I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen. (Buffalo Bill) [government/customs/life/people]

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