111 Quotes About Convention

I look at a Sensual Lifestyle like the entrepreneur's life. We are innovative, risk-taking, and constantly in conflict with convention. Ask me about my journey out of the religious system.

I never learned to say shit before a lady. I don't believe in progress in quite the way you seem to. You believe in it more than Grandmother did. As for those purely cultural patterns of convention you think I ought to escape from, they happen to add up to civilization, and I'd rather be civilized than tribal or uncouth.

I have always thought that people are, by nature, nomadic, but they’ve built up anti-human constructs to keep them in place and then they pop pills to mask their misery and look for ways to distract from their emptiness.

Convention: a dog's collar.

Most self-employed people remain slaves to the employed’s working hours.

A Mannerist designer would attack the linguistic convention not by avoiding the use of the signal, but by misusing it notoriously.

Let us not take it for granted that life exists more in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

Custom is sanctified absurdity.

Public opinion is to an unconventional idea … what abortion is to sperm.