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«No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion»
Author: Carrie Chapman Catt
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binding, custom, laws and customs, popular opinion, supported, unwritten, unwritten law
«Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it»
Author: Harriet Martineau
(Essayist, Novelist)
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correction, laws and customs, perpetually
«The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.»
Author: Peter Kropotkin
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adroit, beneficial, customs, enforced, followed, harmful, laws and customs, mixture, ruling, The Masses
«Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the propositionthat each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future.»
Author: Charles Lindbergh
(Aviator)
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custodian, custodians, customs, inheritance, in turn, laws and customs, owner, proposition, The Absolute
«He sees that this great roundaboutThe world, with all its motley rout,Church, army, physic, law,Its customs and its businesses,Is no concern at all of his,And says -- what says he? -- Caw.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
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businesses, caw, customs, laws and customs, Laws of physics, motley, physic, roundabout, rout
«Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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customs, laws and customs, Laws of nature, the laws of nature, tribe
«He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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barbarian, customs, laws and customs, Laws of nature, The Barbarians, tribe
«A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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ceases, centuries, custom, laws and customs, persevered, supersede, superseded, supersedes
«Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
custom, customs, escaped, evaded, evading, laws and customs, openly, transgressed, transgressing
«May princes know then that they begin to lose (their) state at that hour in which they begin to break the laws and those customs and usages that are ancient and under which men have lived for a long time»
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