A Quote by Tacitus

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

Tacitus

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Tacitus
Roman - Historian
55 - 120

Neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power.

John Money

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

The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies.

Charles Tupper

Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself is socially powerful only just so far as it has custom on its side.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

My voice adapts itself to the music. I can do a lot more than you hear in Portishead.

Beth Gibbons

As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.

Confucius

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

Albert Camus

A healthy plant is one that adapts best to the situation in which it finds itself. There is no objective measure of this.

Monty Don

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

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period

Coco Chanel

Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Everybody says women are like water. I think it's because water is the source of life, and it adapts itself to its environment. Like women, water also gives of itself wherever it goes to nurture life.

Xinran

An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice it 's compressed and zipped philosophy . It is literature that adapts itself to the digital age.

William C. Brown

Al Qaida changes; Al Qaida adapts. We have to adapt as well. We rely on resources to do that. Reducing resources beyond a certain point will make us less able to adapt as our enemy adapts.

Michael Hayden

Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.

Michel de Montaigne

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.

Coco Chanel

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