cultural conventions Quotes

We have come into the world naked, and all the animals are naked, why should man hide his body behind clothes?

Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.

But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.

The subsistence level is only a conventional idea, and conventions change.

Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together.

In some ways, the documentary form is a kind of trap and so is societal norms.

Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already there, but these rites, being the work of the individual, cannot call forth that submission to something superior to the self which characterizes the appearance of any rule.

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.