Custom Quotes
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That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.
Ivo Andric
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I assume that in great men whose names I dare not mention, the anarchic element was very powerful. You see, when fundamental changes are to occur in law, custom, and society, they presuppose a great distancing from established principles. And the anarch, should he take any action, is capable of working this lever.
Ernst Junger
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Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.
Blaise Pascal
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What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.
John Locke
Nazareth
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What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?
Thomas Carlyle
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Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.
Andrew Michael Ramsay
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The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Vegetables when not sufficiently cooked are know to be so exceedingly unwholesome and indigestible, that the custom of serving them 'crisp' should be altogether disregarded when health is considered of more importance than fashion.
Eliza Acton
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It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.
Robert Wilson Lynd
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I cannot find any great difference, on the basis of natural reason and equity only, between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.
George Cheyne
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As an anarch, who acknowledges neither law nor custom, I owe it to myself to get at the very heart of things. I then probe them in terms of their contradictions, like image and mirror image. Either is imperfect – by seeking to unite them, which I practice every morning, I manage to catch a corner of reality.
Ernst Junger
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A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.
Bertrand de Jouvenel