Convention Quotes
This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
Colvin, Shawn
I don't like doing what's expected. I've always done best when I've listened to my instincts rather than following convention or doing what other people think I should do.
Corzine, Jon
Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.
Huxley, Aldous
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Russell, Bertrand
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Scheler, Max
The purpose of art is... to press forward into the whole of the external world and the soul, to see and communicate those objective realities within it which rule and convention have hitherto concealed.
Schubert, Franz
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.