Quotes About Customs

People said that man had changed: the weakness of people's health no longer allows us to fast. Was it true?

Strabo also described the sexual mores of the mountain tribes of Media (northwestern Iran): the men have up to five women and 'likewise the women believe it honorable to have as many men as possible and consider less than five a calamity.

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

Walau orang gunung kami tahu menghormat, tahu bagaimana sebaiknya menerima tamu. Ia akan mengambil celana untuk menghormati kami. (Orang-orang gunung ito bodo, tapi kase hormat. Yako punya hati ingin hormat) - Bambu, Seorang Alfuru Di Wai Loa

Adat kampung tidak membenarkan seorang anak menyebut nama orang tuanya selagi ia masih bergantung pada mereka - Pembicaraan Dengan Nait, Seorang Wanita Alfuru, Wai Lo

Adat perempuan dibeli; adat orang tua menjual; kalau harta sudah di tangan apalagi akan dipersoalkan?

Bila ada Pamali turun, barang atau pakaian peninggalan orang mati dikumpulkan dan diletakan di gebrahe

Adat itu bikin orang jadi bodo. Adat larang orang kampung belajar menulis, membaca, bikin gambar.

Fina bara kurang ajar sama Ngama. Jangan kurang ajar sama Ngama. Hormati suamimu.

Saya sendiri tidak mengerti yang sebenarnya tentang peraturan adat secara lengkap, Ngama. Tapi kenyataannya Ngama Hinolong dan Katcodin sendiri juga ada gambarnya. Malah bicara Indonesia baik. Mengapa kita tak bisa? Adat untuk kita semua.

Even if she could have got so far without a quarrel, still there would have been a great hue and cry about the marriage itself. First, it never happened. Secondly, how could there be a marriage between a princess of the Warrior Caste and a boy of the priestly Brahman Caste? Her readers would have imagined at once that the writer was preaching against our social customs in an underhand way. And they would write letters to the papers.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

If you look in the Bible there's no birthdays.

Whom do you speak to about introducing a leap year? Is it heresy to request such a thing? Why do the Jews have one and we don't?

Wherever you go, respect the local culture or you will suffer.

In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.

If you think about Protestant and Catholic or Shiite and Sunni, they are basically the same thing... one eats with their left hand, the other eats with their right hand.

I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.

The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Transcendentalists have been accused of being rebels and rule-breakers. But if they disregard society's customs and laws, it's because they're listening to conscience and obeying the Law Maker within. There are situations where virtue asks us to break the rules.

The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs . . . Whoso would be a man must also be a non-conformist.

Fine fellows—cannibals—in their place.

Victoria lifted her chin. "In my country, Mr. Fielding, it is considered ill-bred to argue at the table." Her veiled reprimand filled him with amusement. "How very inconvenient for you," he remarked softly.

This is the old way of thinking, and most people think first as they have been taught to think; and next, as they see others think.