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“Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation.”

Ifs Men Wells Individual Belief Absurd Isolation Nationalism Customs Dread Refuge Degrading

Book:Escape from Freedom

Source: Escape from Freedom

“We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.”

Thinking Believe May Belief Heard Customs Boast Axioms Free Thinking

Book:Sartor Resartus

Source: Sartor Resartus

“The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies.”

America Belief Class Hundred Misery Committed Proportion Abortion Customs Pregnancy Working Class Seventeen

Author:Emma Goldman

“Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.”

Belief Dresses Customs Crabs Seaweed

Author:Cyril Connolly

“I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge.”

Certain Belief Atheism Example Convinced Customs Certain Knowledge

Author:Rene Descartes

“The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of the movements of civilization that have taken place outside of the church and usually in the face of the strong opposition of the church. But the church has always resisted the process of civilization. It has struggled to the last ditch, by fair means and foul, to preserve as long as it could the vestiges of ancient and medieval theology, with all the puerile moralities and harsh customs and medieval styles of belief.”

“There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women to a vision of human claims in those races of their fellow-men who most differ from them in customs and beliefs.”

Ifs Men Should Humans Care Belief Imagination Race Vision Men And Women Claims Fellows Tolerance Customs Fellow Man

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.”

Firsts Littles Moments Able Culture Individual Belief Born Community Birth Habit Activity Shapes Creatures Behavior Standards Patterns Customs Impossibility Accommodations

Author:Ruth Benedict

“The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.”

Ideas Reason Belief Business Conflict Diversity Trade Meetings Comparison Customs Superstitions Rivals Begets Crossroads Attrition

Book:The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization

Source: The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization

“The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.”

Soul Body Belief Subjects Mankind Depends Disease Customs Peculiar

Author:Maimonides

“Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.”

Years Firsts Has Beens Feelings Care Christian Form Law Belief Taken Atheism Childhood Habit Our Children Slave Positive Atheism Paris Customs Bent False Gods

Author:Voltaire

“Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Rooted deeply in our Judeo-Christian heritage, the practice of offering thanksgiving underscores our unshakable belief in God as the foundation of our Nation and our firm reliance upon Him from Whom all blessings flow.”