A Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

Customs represent the experience of mankind.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Customs Experience Mankind Represent

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Henry Ward Beecher
American - Priest
June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887

American soldiers [are] going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the ñ of ñ the historical customs, religious customs.

John F. Kerry

The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.

Muhammad Iqbal

Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own.

Megan McArdle

Our troops should not conform to customs that represent the marginalization of people and are incongruent with our fundamental values.

Martha McSally

I represent poor people, I represent working people. I represent senior citizens. I represent family businesses. I represent people who don't have the wherewithal to hire overpriced Washington lobbyists and lawyers. I want to send the powers back to the states and the people.

Paul Broun

I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.

Miguel

The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite the differences of language, customs and social structure we are able to communicate life experience from one whole nation to another, to communicate a difficult national experience many decades long which the second of the two has never experienced.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.

Daniel Pipes

I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs.

Nelson Mandela

We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps.

Nipsey Hussle

It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind?

Czeslaw Milosz

For if one should propose to all men a choice, bidding them select the best customs from all the customs that there are, each race of men, after examining them all, would select those of his own people; thus all think that their own customs are by far the best

Herodotus

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.

Robert A. Heinlein

The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.

Maimonides

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.

Paul Tsongas

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