Quotes About Custom

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Habit is the deepest law of human nature

Habit is a second nature.

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

What we call human nature, is actually human habit.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.

Habit has a kind of poetry.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.

Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

the spectacle of people following current custom for lack of will or imagination to do anything else is hardly a new failing.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I shall not be able to find my way across the room, nor know how to conduct myself in any circumstances, nor what to feel in any relation of life.

Habit is second nature, or rather, ten times nature.

A Frith may be made at any time; but the first Monday of the quarter — a' chiad Di-luain de'n Raithe — is considered the most auspicious.

Many activities were forbidden on the Sabbath: work, play, and unnecessary travel. Even minor instances of Sabbath-breaking were punished with much severity. The Essex County Court indicted a man for carrying a burden on the Sabbath, and punished a woman for brewing on the Lord's Day. When Ebenezer Taylor of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, fell into a forty-foot well, his rescuers stopped digging on Saturday afternoon while they debated whether it was lawful to rescue him on the Sabbath. Other

Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity (the church's ) : and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person , which subverts all the principles of his understanding and gives him a determination of believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.

When we have found a resemblance [FN 2.] among several objects, that often occur to us, we apply the same name to all of them, whatever differences we may observe in the degrees of their quantity and quality, and whatever other differences may appear among them. After we have acquired a custom of this kind, the hearing of that name revives the idea of one of these objects, and makes the imagination conceive it with all its particular circumstances and proportions.

Thus if instead of saying, that in war the weaker have always recourse to negotiation, we should say, that they have always recourse to conquest, the custom, which we have acquired of attributing certain relations to ideas, still follows the words, and makes us immediately perceive the absurdity of that proposition; in the same manner as one particular idea may serve us in reasoning concerning other ideas, however different from it in several circumstances.

The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary, and running, without controul, into the most distant parts of space and time, in order to avoid the objects, which custom has rendered too familiar to it.

The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.