Conventions Quotes

I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.

A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.

I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions ... and yet which still remains a context.

Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks.

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.

The attributes of liminality are necessarily ambiguous... Liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention and ceremonial.

I have more folds than an origami convention.

[The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods.

The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear.

It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.

As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.

Bruce Reid is not the worst batsman there is at international level but those who are worse would not need to hire the Myer Music Bowl to hold a convention.

Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.

President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.

The calendar? A mere convention.

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

Convention is the ruler of all.

Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.

All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better.

By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past.

I've agreed to do several Star Trek conventions this coming year.

I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.

I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.