Conventions

Famous quotes containing the word conventions:

“I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)