Donald Sterling Quotes

In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

Everybody sacrifices something in an attempt to reach what they think society wants.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

If a community decides this is how you're going to dress and these are the punishments, who are we to say different?

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.

No member of any society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

If we think we regulate printing thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all recreations and pastimes ...

Americans use custom, more than written law, to enforce virtue

Culture is more important than politics.

… a country's laws are written upon paper, and that its customs are engraved upon brass. One may play with the one, but not with the other. It is less risky for a stranger to dance upon our Constitution in the public square than to affront one of our solidified customs. The one is merely eminently respectable, the other is sacred.

In order to know a community, one must observe the styles of its funerals and know what manner of men they bury with most ceremony.

We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker'-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.

I was raised in a very Middle Eastern household, and modesty was very important, and dressing to not be desirable or provocative was very important.

The CBFC is only mirroring society.

Even though I did things which were not in accordance with the society's norms, deep down, I am an orthodox woman.

We have a unique culture.

Culture is a reflection of values.

We're supposed to be civilized. We're supposed to go to work every day. We're supposed to be nice to our friends and send Christmas cards to our parents.

The empire of custom is most mighty.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.