Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
- Hermann HesseYou see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.
- Martha GrahamHave a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.
- Mark TwainThe customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
- Dante AlighieriCustom is the great guide to human life
- David HumeCustom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned
- Joseph Wood KrutchCustom adapts itself to expediency
- Publius Cornelius TacitusNo man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
- Ruth BenedictWe do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned
- Thomas Carlyle