94 Quotes About Customs

Customs, morals--is there a difference?

Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them. From an anthropologist's view, 'justice' is a search for workable customs.

Her name...was Mrs. marina Orlova, and she had grown up in Siberia. Later, she would tell him that she loathed the American custom of constantly smiling: "They are like chimpanzees," she said, in her bitter exclamatory voice. She grimaced, baring her teeth grotesquely. "Eee!" she said. "I smile at you! Eee! It is repulsive.

We are our culture and tradition; if there is no culture or tradition we are no one.

I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew to be true.

درنا: نمی شه من هم باشم؟مرد یکم: این مسابقه ی مردان است!درنا: من تندروتر از خیلی مَردم!مرد یکم: زمانی در قبیله این امتیازی بود؛ اما از گردشِ چرخ، زنِ محترم امروز کسی است که منتظر مردمش می ماند.درنا: راه بدن به رسم قدیم؛ خود ای مسابقه رسم قدیمه!

I had never before considered leaving my religion, my family, my customs, and my beliefs behind. It was all that I had ever known. Would it be worth it to give it all up? I had no way of knowing. It was frightening even to contemplate a life beyond

Love is a country where you leave the passports of rationality at the customs when you enter, to be collected when you exit.

The women cannot go out except to go to church or to the bullfight, and even that is unusual. I consider it a very ugly custom, and if I couldn't go out as I wished, I would leave this country [Spain], if only because of that one custom of the inhabitants.