65 Quotes About Custom

I don't believe in these customs and rituals, as it's like manufacturing culture-fits on the graveyard of diversity. But then I haven't yet found any other alternative to this prevalent system, which doesn't have its fair share of drawbacks. So if following a custom means being courteous to someone, why not?

Customs, morals—is there a difference? Woman, do you realize what you are doing? Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe—and you want to turn him into a carbon copy of every fourth-rate conformist in this frightened land! Why don’t you go whole hog? Get him a brief case and make him carry it wherever he goes—make him feel shame if he doesn’t have it.

Rousseau (I’ll note with your permission)Could not conceive how solemn GrimmDared clean his nails in front of him,The madcap sage and rhetorician.Champion of rights and liberty,In this case judged wrong-headedly.One still can be a man of actionAnd mind the beauty of one’s nails:Why fight the age’s predilection?Custom’s a despot and prevails.

Custom! that skillful but unhurrying manager who begins by torturing the mind for weeks on end with her provisional arrangements; whom the mind, for all that, is fortunate in discovering, for without the help of custom it would never contrive, by its own efforts, to make any room seem habitable.

What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.

She has become part of the tribe by behaving like its members.

If it became customary to go out into the street stark naked I should not be the first nor the last to conform.

Nothing is stronger than Custom (Fac tibi consuescat: nil adsuetudine maius)

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