Customs Quotes
The Jew is contrary to our being. ... He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation, made our customs rotten, and polluted the morale.
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them.
The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances.
Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity.
We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.
The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?
If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.
The importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art.
Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.
The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.
Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.
We have a pride of who we are as Latinos, regardless if we're Puerto Rican, Dominican, Venezuelan, and we're very proud of our customs and our history and our traditions and who we are.
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.
In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp!
The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.
We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.
To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.
Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.
Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.
There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.
The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs.
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!
