Conventions Quotes

Conventions Quote of the day

My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.

I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions -- being freer and more at ease as human beings.

New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.

A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I thought it was so creative. He was liberated from the conventions of fashion.

I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.

I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.

I'd rather violate every one of the damn conventions and see my bills passed, than sit back in my office, all nice and proper, and watch 'em die.

Kino-Eye uses every possible means in montage, comparing and linking all points of the universe in any temporal order, breaking, when necessary, all the laws and conventions of film construction.

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.

I have more folds than an origami convention.

[The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods.

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

I have failed 'Star Wars' trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms that I've never heard of.

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.

Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear.

Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.

It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.

As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Bruce Reid is not the worst batsman there is at international level but those who are worse would not need to hire the Myer Music Bowl to hold a convention.

Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .

Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.

But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.

Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor).

President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.

I am interested in the conventions of picture-making, in the desire to picture the world and in our relationship, our continual love for and fascination with pictures.

The calendar? A mere convention.

One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past.