111 Quotes About Convention

Convention, like Saturn, is a jealous god and eats its babies.

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.

What could she do, bound as she was by the tyranny of silence? She dared not explain the girl to herself...that wilfully selfish tyranny of silence evolved by a crafty old ostrich of a world for its own well-being and comfort. The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that seeing nothing it might avoid Truth...if silence is golden it is also in this case, very expedient.

Question convention.

One day we found them. They must of been holding a gook convention or something, cause it seem like the same sort of deal as when you step on a anthill and they all come swarming around.

And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.

Do something unconventional and they call it depravity.

Often I didn’t think I was cut out for the way the world is, being born into a common culture and system I would never choose for myself.