Conventions Quotes

• At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Confusion, Hospitality, Mets

  Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.39, Univ of California Press

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• Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

  Bertrand Russell

  Atheist, People, Criticism

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.76, Lulu Press, Inc

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• 2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red Sox won the World Series!

  Thomas Menino

  Boston, Years, Great Year

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• Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

  Brian Molko

  Gigs, Outsiders, Outcast

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

  Franz Schubert

  Wise, Men, Fool

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• A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

  Aldous Huxley

  Education, Children, Teaching

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

  Aldous Huxley

  War, History, Facts

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Lying, Should Have, Deceit

  Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.cbsnews.com. August 31, 2004.

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• George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

  Bianca Jagger

  Law, Walking Away, Rights

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

  Charles Schumer

  Soldier, Obsolete, Geneva

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• The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Ideas, Ties, Errors

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.

  William Shatner

  Discovery, People, Want

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• I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Running, Country, Thinking

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• There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

  George Santayana

  Doubt, Atheism, Would Be

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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

  Carol Bellamy

  Rights, Government, Bounds

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• This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

  David Brinkley

  Mean, Moon, Keeping Promises

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• I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Art, Enemy, Despise

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• The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

  Barbara Bush

  Blue, Mind, Waste

  TIME magazine, August 24, 1992.

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• In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Different, Fiction, Crowds

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• The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

  Emanuel Celler

  Heart, Men, Honest

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Love, Husband, Passion

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• Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

  Bette Davis

  Respect, Funny Marriage, Ends

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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

  Denis Diderot

  Human Nature, Should, Humans

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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

  Gustav Mahler

  Vanity, Renounce, Delusion

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• In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

  Florence King

  Order, Snakes, Literature

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.22, Macmillan

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