A Quote by Anatole France

Custom alone regulates morals.

Anatole France

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Alone Custom Morals

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Anatole France
French - Novelist
April 16, 1844 - October 12, 1924

The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.

Norm MacDonald

Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

Mark Twain

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Thomas Hardy

The real test is this one: When you're alone in a room, when you're in a private place and nobody else can see you, what do you choose to do? Eat well, or eat poorly? Exercise, or watch television? Practice something, or do nothing? The best version of the truth appears to you and you alone, when nobody else can see. This is the test of discipline, and it's what makes the difference in your life. It's what regulates your own system and guides it. The individual alone comprehends it.

Georges St-Pierre

Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture.

Frantz Fanon

Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society

Edward Burnett Tylor

Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses among all growing things and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer to talk with the one that I belong to.

Nachman of Breslov

You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.

Bernie Sanders

Next to my bed I have a custom lightsaber. A custom hilt with an orange blade up on the wall.

Brook Lopez

Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.

Aaron Levie

I play a PRS Custom 22. I learned on a Custom 24. It was set for a country guitarist, so it had a really high action.

Orianthi

[F]or avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy . . . the only ground of hope must be on the morals of the people. I believe that religion is the only solid base of morals and that morals are the only possible support of free governments. [T]herefore education should teach the precepts of religion and the duties of man towards God.

Gouverneur Morris

Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.

Blaise Pascal

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

Mark Twain

Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom